Honestly i feel like all DNS providers should geoblock a country who does this for a day or a week to give them an idea of how the internet works. People who know will still have internet everyone else will learn a valuable lesson in this is not as simple as it looks.
I do not like the looks of the future. Too much regulatory capture, too much critical infrastructure based on technology too little effort has been spent explaining to the layperson. It leads to clueless and incompetent governance like this, to the benefit of a handful of the worst people, to the detriment of most of us.
The internet routes around damage. Lemmy, Tor and many other projects are the direct result of government and business interference.
All of which could be made illegal if they decide it suits them best.
Sure, but we’re quickly approaching wireless distances where even a few people in a metro area can get a mesh network going.
That could be made illegal as well if the FCC felt inclined to. Radio direction finding would make tracking down mesh nodes fairly trivial for them.
Range isn’t the only factor, though. Noise tolerance is another significant one, and if mesh networks take off, I think a lot of long distance radios and other devices will struggle in dense locations. Imagine tens of thousands of overlapping devices with no real capacity to coordinate resource sharing so they’re all just shouting over each other.
With access to what exactly? Unless everything is stored locally, that accomplishes exactly nothing.
You end up with a peer to peer version of fediverse or the old news group system. It’s not going to be 4k instant streaming kind of network.
So…. You have extremely biased message boards, controlled by mods with no oversight, and the dialogue is controlled by a handful of users? You’re not selling it very well lmfao. There’s a reason why this isn’t exactly a thing yet, it’s just not robust or has anything useful, Wikipedia? News? Anything actually useful or relevant this could be used for? How would you send out breaking information like people need to evacuate?
It’s why these things are more for hobbyist, backup, disaster recovery or if government shuts down the internet. They’re not meant to be nice and convenient.
Wasn’t Tor a government project?
Good for them to leave. More company should do the same
Is this going to lead to more video game stores being robbed in protest?
good time to start looking more into reticulum
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