Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What do you mean by that? Most of the infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I2p exists

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So do a million different forms of encryption. That doesn’t make the infrastructure any less centralized. If the people who own the fiber decide to only allow pre-approved types of traffic to cross their networks then it doesn’t make any difference what sort of protocols exist. Building free cross-country or subsea fiber routes is not economically viable and the internet doesn’t exist without them.

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      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Please look into how i2p works. It’s not just some form of encryption.

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      • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a very different story than requiring I’d for some websites

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.

    GAFAM holds a large chunk of social media HTTP/S traffic, plus cloud crap. That’s all application layer.
    Do they own main trunk IP routers too?

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They do wade into the IP / transport territory a bit but those are not the 6 companies I was referring to. I was thinking of Verizon / AT&T / Lumen / Zayo / etc.

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Those for sure… in the US.
        Which international ties to they have? I know Vodafone is present in a lot of countries (the brand, it’s a different company altogether in each country) but don’t know many more… nor do i know of any that has a global monopoly of network nodes.

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