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310725c8 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @loopy pedestrian✍🏿 @:ihavenomouth:  Tor has stayed up for most of it.  Otherwise yeah, turns out the current owners of the Internet are retarded at the highest levels.
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loopy pedestrian✍🏿 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @310725c8 @:ihavenomouth:  it's a dillema with the big I Internet I guess. we can't just decentralize everything that's impossible. we need some kind of pivot of trust but the current ISPs don't seem to be trustworthy enough to be them... but is there a better pivot of trust? not sure. Tor, I2P, Lokinet, and Yggdrasil all still run on top of existing big-I-Internet infrastructure.
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310725c8 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @loopy pedestrian✍🏿 @:ihavenomouth:  There isn't a centralization fix for the big-I Internet.  This is one of those problems that requires minimal but effective regulation to fix.  Internet access and routing needs to be treated as a utility that can't be shut off for non-criminal customers, same as water and electricity.

(We've got to the point where banks and payment processors need the same constraint, but they'll never agree to it.)

Of course the dipshits in charge are going in the other direction.  The Dems in the US are trying to get the FCC to extend regulatory control, ostensibly to bring back net neutrality.  Except the letter they wrote about it ALSO talks about stopping hate, harassment, etc.