The idea behind decentralization isn't that it eliminates surveillance, but that it makes indiscriminate mass surveillance less easy, especially when combined with good cryptography.
Mass surveillance has existed in other societies without the help of today's technology, but technology, especially when it aggregates aggregates data in large hubs, makes it very easy.
It's not the protocols that are to blame (they're just contracts for how things talk to other things) for enabling mass surveillance, but the way we've structured our software and services.
Mass surveillance has existed in other societies without the help of today's technology, but technology, especially when it aggregates aggregates data in large hubs, makes it very easy.
It's not the protocols that are to blame (they're just contracts for how things talk to other things) for enabling mass surveillance, but the way we've structured our software and services.