I remember back then someone posting that a meshnet had to have a way to control child pornography. I tried to tell them that a networking protocol is not the appropriate place to try and enforce laws. Network admins aren't police and a router's only job is to route packets. It's not like a TSA screening machine where some person watches every packet go by to make sure it doesn't have a prohibited payload. It would be more efficient and effective for police to do actual police work to catch child pornographers rather than trying to figure out how to nigger rig networking equipment to catch it.
The point is that no sooner does something cool get proposed than a bunch of people come out of the woodwork to fuck it all up by adding requirements.
The point of a meshnet is that it's like local very near by transmitters/receivers.
If someone posts child abuse on the world wide web that person could be anywhere.
If they do it on a meshnet then everyone would know it was someone local in the community.
Seems like that would be a great way for the offending party to get their house torched in their sleep or get arrested or have something else equally unpleasant occur to them.
Perhaps just like a notice that says "this network is run by your neighbors who can see everything you do on the network unless you specifically encrypt the traffic" and displays first thing after logging on would put everyone on their best behavior.
The whole point of the thing was that all traffic is encrypted. There's almost zero possibility of it working if it isn't.
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