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| The_welcome_page_of_Freenet_Hyphanet.png FProxy index page (Freenet 0.7.5) | |
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| Initial release | March 2000 |
| Stable release | Template:Latest stable software release/Freenet |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform: Unix-like (Android, Linux, BSD, macOS), Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese |
| Type | Anonymity application, peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend, overlay network, mix network, distributed data store |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | freenetproject |
Freenet is a decentralized (hosted on many machines) network., It is censorship-resistant, which means it is not easy for anyone other than authors to remove content. The data is stored on many machines. Freenet was made by Ian Clarke. Freenet has a goal to provide freedom of speech and Freedom of information through a peer-to-peer network with protection of user's identity. Freenet works by putting together the volunteer bandwidth and storage space of member machines to allow users to anonymously publish (place or upload) or retrieve (get or download) different kinds of information. From a user's perspective, it can be thought of as simply a large storage device.
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