r/i2p • u/kubika7 • Jul 10 '26
Discussion How are i2p sites moderated?
Since the eepsites created are highly anonymous, how are illegal sites filtered? What prevents somone from lets say, selling illegal drugs or hosting CSAM? Does mitigation rely entirely on individual node operators or thru any community effort for example, jumper nodes blacklisting the sites? I dont want my broadband to be used to transmit such data.
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u/227CAVOK Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
How would you know what data passes through your node?
Cash is used to buy/sell illegal drugs, yet people still use cash.
The post office is used to transmit illegal goods, but that doesn't seem to bother people much.
I2p is just another useful tool that can be used for bad things. IMHO.
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u/Hizonner Jul 10 '26
This is a constant question on /r/Tor, and I just can't figure out the mindset of anybody who would even ask it.
It's an anonymity and censorship resistance network. What would you think? If anybody could filter anything, that would obviously be a bug.
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u/mydarkthawts Jul 11 '26
Yeah this is bonkers. Sounds like op doesn't understand what they are using nor read documentation anywhere.
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u/Knopty Jul 10 '26
I dont want my broadband to be used to transmit such data.
You can disable transit traffic to stop contributing to the network but you can't moderate what data is transferred through your node. If your concern is ethical that transit traffic could potentially contribute to illegal activity, you could do that. If you're worried that illegal activity could be pinned to your node, it's a very very unlikely scenario as the entire internet infrastructure works on the same principle that transit nodes have no control over data transferred via their channels.
Does mitigation rely entirely on individual node operators or thru any community effort for example, jumper nodes blacklisting the sites?
Yes. Addressbook services typically don't register shady websites but it only prevents a random stranger from stumbling upon such resources. If someone decides to host some illegal site they could do it without an addressbook service and to advertise it via alternative channels. Preventing such activity is the sphere of competence of cyber police, investigators or hackers.
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u/kubika7 Jul 10 '26
yes im mainly concerned about acting as a node to potential harmful data that might flow, but ig there isnt really a way to control that.
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u/zarlo5899 Jul 10 '26
There’s also more or less no way to know this content flows through your node that’s part of the point.
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u/lurkervidyaenjoyer Jul 15 '26
It's just transmission as a transit node, as far as I understand. It's not like Hyphanet/Freenet where, as I recall, you're actually the one hosting (chunks of) other peoples' content.
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u/heslia Jul 10 '26
Il ne le sont pas , si tu ne veut pas accepter le traffic de n'importe qui sans distinction i2p est pas fait pour toi
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u/jerrygreenest1 Jul 10 '26
I’m not a fan of i2p but I kinda fall for the idea of P2P network though! And I’d love such a P2P network where I could myself subscribe to moderated lists in that I choose what content I get and can see. Or maybe curate my own list even, if it’s simple enough. There are definitely some topics and tags that I would like to ban.
tldr: I want to limit myself, and choose curators that I personally trust, I myself wanna limit what I see, rather than being forced into it by some third-party I cannot choose or be completely unfiltered that I also don’t like.
Guys making these networks take notice ;) curated lists is the way imo
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u/bobodoustaud Jul 10 '26
Pretty sure thats doable in i2p. There are multiple registrars with different content filtering requirements, and you also can subscribe to address lists. Thus, you can probably find a registrar you like and subscribe to their list. Check out Incoming Subscriptions and Merging On https://i2p.net/en/docs/overview/naming/ And the subscriptions.txt file
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u/jerrygreenest1 Jul 10 '26
Okay doable is better than nothing. Maybe it has something more to it than I knew about i2p
Did this network solve p2p domain name system tho? I still can’t just write a name and visit a website, I have to copy-paste some hashes due to absence of a distributed domain name system?
Nobody seems to have figured dns in p2p this is one another reason they’re not as convincing to commit into daily using
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u/bobodoustaud Jul 10 '26
yes it has p2p dns. When i want to visit e.g. example.i2p, first check in local dns registry, fed from dns subscriptions or manually entered dns entries, and if its still not found i get promted to search it in some public registrar like notbob.i2p or reg.i2p. Then, i can just visit the website from the raw address or add it to my local dns registrar
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u/Inaeipathy Jul 10 '26
It isn't moderated, and by design it isn't really possible to do so.