Protocol Labs user experience lead Jessica Schilling said interplanetary file system, or IPFS, aims to break the internet free from the monopolistic control of a few mega-corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and China’s Alibaba and Tencent. She also noted that the system can prevent censorship in places like Turkey, where a local version of Wikipedia is being hosted after the government blocked access to the standard Web 2.0 version of the site.
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