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Author: Peter Rosenmai
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To: tech
Subject: [Tech] Would it be possible to effectively shutdown Freenet within the PRC?

Hello all,
I've looked around and have been unable to find an answer to the following questions. I hope I am posting these to the right group.

1. Suppose Freenet were to prove such an irritant to the mainland Chinese government that they decided to shut it down altogether within China. How great a technical challenge would this present? I understand that the PRC farms out much of the responsibility for censoring internet traffic to ISPs: Chinese ISPs could simply look for and block the Freenet protocol, couldn't they?

2. Would it be possible for the PRC to run Freenet nodes in order to determine the IP addresses of other nodes within China?

3. Is it true that the PRC has previously blocked Freenet? If so, how was this achieved?

Kind regards,
Peter from Sydney

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