Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/an-unholy-alliance/
The unholy alliance in Congress that wants to censor the Internet.::I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated
We need to decentralized the internet. The technology is widely available to regular people, it even already exists in the new tech your average person is just buying in a regular consumer devices. Centralized hardwire networks have had a great run for 40 or so years, but the freedom they offered was bound to get regulated by those that need to stay in control or hurt their ego.
Wireless mesh networks are only happening in a very tiny niche, will that take off the same way internet did pre2000s or will everyone take the easy dopamine.
How do you think things like IPFS and I2P play into this decentralizing idea? (Genuine question, I’m just starting to learn about IPFS and I2P, so any info, perspective, etc, will be helpful).
It’s very disappointing that encryption wasn’t built in to TCPIP from the beginning. It was considered, but I think the concern was we lacked hardware to provide sufficient performance at the time. (And maybe that was just an excuse to enable surveillance).
I honestly don’t know. It’s going to have to be some peer system. If and what takes off I don’t know yet, but I’m watching and want to know. It’s going to be some peer based infrastructure. Just looking at the phones everyone carries, you got like 256gb of storage, 2 thru 5g, Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, all this wireless connection, and the processing to back it up. It needs to be easy as torrenting was in 2005, we need to make the infrastructure and UI easy for everyone, then a p2p or i2p whatever can take off.
I recently covered this and the circle of life ( it’s the wheel of fortune! ) of censorship.
It goes like this:
Kids are seeing naked bits and people fucking! Adults clutch pearls.
We invent a new DRM to block kids from seeing the nekkid. Hydra ( HAIL HYDRA! ✋️) no longer has its nefarious clutches on the minds of our kids.
Now our kids are safe from boobies, we can make sure they’re safe from other ideas, such as:
Now some people who are not the two major US political parties think kids should be exposed to this stuff, so much so that they’ll work out how to bypass the DRM and spread the word. Informed kids grow up to be healthy (healthier) adults!
Kids gain access to porn again. Pearls are clutched.
This was damn near unreadable and I gave up.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone needs to do that thing where John Oliver bought congressional member data and playfully suggested they might like their own data involuntarily disclosed on the altar of their own anti-privacy legislation or something to that effect 🤔
These dickheads need to be bound but not protected and exposed not concealed for once in their whole fucking lives. Super tired about hearing of shit like this on an annual and recurring basis
moistclump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was trying to look into the other day if John’s sunny got things changed. Do you know?