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But why not just share the raw text then? In a situation where you would need to distribute web pages without a host, presumably to share vital information, couldn't you just share the raw text via the same medium you use to send the link?

I still think this is really interesting though.

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Because you can distribute web forms that post data to locations for aggregation of standardized data. Useful for organizing strikes and other civil disobedience.

Think about the tools a modern political campaign uses, it would be somewhat similar.

If you need to have a host receiving that data, why not serve the page from that host?

Good point, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Perhaps the data from the form could get turned into an email or sms draft instead of an HTTP action.

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