Except, to buy it out, he has to first pay the creditors for the value, because he used that as collateral to buy Twitter.

They never do.

So, just like Twitter, then? When the official servers don’t show whatever the government tells them not to show?

That’s not how it works, though? But alas… our white house isn’t filled with our best, but rapists and criminals.

Email is federated, it’s just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars…

Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.

Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.

Unfortunately, you can’t really do DNS in a decentralized manner as the concept is based on a hirarchy.

You very much can! As long as you understand that every . is a new level of hierarchy. And that hierarchy can be arranged, in any manner one desires. You can even have a different . as the root.

For example, you can be THE ROOT for all .stoy domains. You just have to get others to honor that, and ask you for addresses of anything in .stoy’s inventory. Of course, they can all tell you to piss off, and instead trust someone else is the true owner of .stoy.

And, honestly? Nothing at all is wrong with that!

What is wrong is right now, EVERYONE agrees that a handful of never-changing owners of .com, .org, .net domains (And other TLDs) is THE ONE TRUE ANSWER FOR US ALL. I didn’t agree to that. Did you? Do you enjoy Verisign being the one true keeper of .com?

Yes, it uses the same engine, but it blocks their ads.

Which means nothing, when Google can, and is, pushing technology to freely unleash their ad network on all web pages, as a function of the engine itself.

No, it’s not a competitor. Excepting in their ad markets, and frankly, it’s not a competitor, it’s a statistical blip.

but we’ll have one less competitor to Google’s absolute hegemony over the web browser market.

Brave isn’t a competitor to Google, it’s an enabler. It uses the same engine, which is all Google cares about: Their engine, their internet.