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Are you ready for the day the internet splits? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Are you prepared for the day the #internet splits?

On the clearnet you will be

Unable to watch porn.
Required to give your real name and ID in order to use social media.
Arrested for "mean tweets", "anti-government views", "liking subversive memes", etc
Only be allowed to use approved applications from Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc

On #Tor and #I2P you can still be free.

What you can do to prepare

Set your downlink speed to 10-15mbps to acclimatize yourself
Encourage app developers to host their applications on Onion and Eepsite domains. (Git repos, fdroid repos, linux distro repos, etc)
Run all applications that support SOCKS5 over the Tor SOCKS port (9050) (#Fdroid, #Signal, #SimpleX, #AntennaPod, etc)
Use bookmarks or password manager notes to have the URLs of your commonly used programs, services, and repos (#Monero, #XMRBazaar, #Pitch, #Dread, etc.)
Get used to text messages instead of audio or video calls. (Audio and video use UDP and generally give your real IP to either a central STUN server or the other peer. (it may be possible to force audio and video calls over TCP exclusively, but the latency would be high and therefore make the call unenjoyable.)

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[–] DerHans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hate to be that guy, but there won't be an internet split because you won't be able to use the darknet anymore. Number 4 would also mean using only official OSes, no Linux allowed. This can be forced by only allowing the trade of PCs and mainboards with secure boot enabled and without a way to disable it or getting into user mode.

On any official OS you won't be able to install anything from unofficial avenues. You won't be the admin anymore, only a user. The Tor browser won't be available in any official store. And even if you could get the installer, the OS will forbid you from installing and using unsigned or "unknown" applications.

You probably could use your current PC for a while without these restrictions, but once it breaks or you need to upgrade its over. I hope we won't get even close to this, but it looks like we are on the way. Both, in the EU and the US. Moved along by both, left and right. The only thing we can do is look and see who positions themselves where and vote accordingly.