> Why? How is the government going to shut down what is basically a private decentralized p2p network? There isn't any central server they can take out and the traffic over the network would look like any other encrypted traffic.
Many ISPs, schools, cafes and corporate networks do this today already. They only allow HTTP (which goes through monitoring) and HTTPS which is decrypted by a MITM proxy (you have to allow their CA cert on your machine, uncompromised HTTPS is blocked).
In many countries this type of shenanigans are forbidden by law (friendly governments exist too).
True, but adding cute cats to the mix isn't going to fix that either.
I wasn't trying to argue that it was technically infeasible for an Orwellian government to stop it, just that it would be near impossible to stop where this type of traffic isn't already blocked.
The cute cat theory posits the resource doesn't provably work at scale until it hosts a lot of simple, vacuous content. While 200 TB exceeds the number of cute cats I have ever seen, I'm afraid it may not exceed the youtube bandwidth.
It has to work before it can work well. Thus, while PGP technically works great, I haven't heard a lot of Egyptions, Syrians, etc, lauding Phil Zimmerman. Instead, they seem happier with Facebook.
Many ISPs, schools, cafes and corporate networks do this today already. They only allow HTTP (which goes through monitoring) and HTTPS which is decrypted by a MITM proxy (you have to allow their CA cert on your machine, uncompromised HTTPS is blocked).
In many countries this type of shenanigans are forbidden by law (friendly governments exist too).