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1. Censorship resistant resource access.
Govts turn off the internet. (Egypt 2014). Use of peer to peer resource access allows N geographically proximate users accesss to the same file or resources, assuming at least one peer has downloaded them already, for everyone else to get it through them.
2. Broken Links.
The original tenets of the web are violated daily: Links to corporate-supplied services and resources are taken down when censored or when that service goes down or when that corporate goes out of business, or when a hitherto free resource is hidden behind a paywall. Burning books anyone?
3. Verifiability.
Where content at a given URL, changes subtly over time such that premises drawn from content at a particular state, are either no longer true, or become changed to an extent that renders the original factually inaccurate.
4. Centralisation.
The www uses a geographical resource naming system (DNS) which is built into it.
5. Way back machine is a hack
While the way back machine has lofty and good intentions, it's a band aid over a bug in the www that permits content to be lost. What if content immutibilty was built-in such that services like this are no longer needed?
6. The WWW becomes part of your compute device:
7. Upgrade the web
Browser extension vs Core browser functionality vs Default mounted filesystem in *nix distros
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