Decentralization is part of a larger legal playbook. More doesn't always help: BitTorrent was less decentralized than Kazaa but more legally resilient. Their use of OSS, marketing, PR, and implicit reliance on 3rd parties (The Pirate Bay) mattered morehttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1016428419674882048 …
In practice, the effect of a government filter is more than the literal filtering. In the US, you need money transmitter licenses (MTLs) in every state. Expensive and time consuming. Killed centralized currency e-gold in ‘09 taking 1mdc w/ it I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold#Changing_definition_of_a_money_transmitter …
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Requiring a license to do business is a hallmark of rent-seeking, big and small. Sometimes it is pure special interest like dentists creating barriers around teeth whitening. Sometimes it is market paralysis: huge cost to enter, uncertainty that gov could cut you off at any time
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Aimster obscured searches and user IPs from its protocol
BitTorrent disowned search and left IPs in the clear
Courts argued Aimster's conduct was "willful blindness." BitTorrent's choices made its position stronger
Copyright (BitTorrent)
Anti-money laundering (Bitcoin)
Content/communication (Tor)
Legal battles and tech evolution continues until its too hard to install a filter