A central repository of truth is never a good idea.
Advances are being made daily, for files we have IPFS and Tor for instance.
See, ooni for a big picture view of global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.
I don’t want to get off topic this post is about an interview with Charles Hoskinson if you want one on why the future is not going to be centralized open up another post.
Are you a teacher? I remember I had one, who would stop lecturing and write that word on the board whenever someone used it, I can still hear those sighs of pain as we all hit that chalk wall en mass.