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You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that. At that point Filecoin is not relevant. That's not censorship-free either - the use of Eth network can be banned too. And LE or govs see who to target too.


> You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that

No, you don't. The eth contact can control ownership of and permissions to the Filecoin files.

> Eth network can be banned too

Banning the entire network is different than granular censorship of individual files

> And LE or govs see who to target too.

Anonymity is also different from censorship.

You are talking about a lot of adjacencies and "what-abouts"... There are at least half a dozen projects in this vein at the moment, so I'll kindly leave the rest as an exercise to the reader


Eth can't really control filecoin file. Eth nodes are not serving the file. If you go after the nodes which do serve it and remove copies, eth won't have you.

Anonymity is different from censorship, but censorship is trivial in networks where you ask "who has this file" and everyone points at the actual nodes which store it, with public IP addresses.




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