IT'S OUT, maybe my biggest blog post to date.
Ever since the recording industry capitulated ending the P2P War, internet freedom has been SO GOOD that research into decentralized networking has practically stalled. Throughout the Western World, you can just stand up a website and post almost anything.
And because of that, nobody has been particularly motivated to move off of centralized ICANN DNS, IPv4, and x509 Certificate Authorities.
Now, governments are thinking about changing that. And while the apocalyptic amount of force it would take to actually end the open internet is almost certainly beyond them, the force it would take to end the era of bad centralized protocols could almost be applied by accident.
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-war
Thanks @matty for the post.
Ever since the recording industry capitulated ending the P2P War, internet freedom has been SO GOOD that research into decentralized networking has practically stalled. Throughout the Western World, you can just stand up a website and post almost anything.
And because of that, nobody has been particularly motivated to move off of centralized ICANN DNS, IPv4, and x509 Certificate Authorities.
Now, governments are thinking about changing that. And while the apocalyptic amount of force it would take to actually end the open internet is almost certainly beyond them, the force it would take to end the era of bad centralized protocols could almost be applied by accident.
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-war
Thanks @matty for the post.
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Great article. Keep up the good work, spreading the info that it will be surprisingly simple to avoid all government bullshit that's coming to the internet because they're essentially tech illiterate and the right people are already embracing new technologies.
The biggest issues to freedom in reality are corrupt courts and the militarized police, which are more obvious and will eventually have to be dealt with, one way or the other or life will be unbearable and extremely poor.
Very very technical article aimed at Fediverse developers coming soon (probably Monday). Cross-network federation of course...
> The biggest issues to freedom in reality are corrupt courts
Need to replace them with something, hard problem figuring out how to do it right, baby steps :S