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You joke but it would be great if we could restart the web. No bots, no corps, you have to be a nerd to get in. Maybe some specific protocol where you need a certain modem to access it, to keep other people out...
Maybe this is what the dark web is? I haven't dabbled.
Elites abandoning a world they judged unworthy in favor of vendor lock-in sounds pretty dark to me
That's basically Apple users locking themselves in the garden.
An iPhone can communicate with other devices over open protocols, which is different from the proposed un-reachability and privileged access to the network.
Basically. Look up onion routing (tor protocol).
Right I've used that but I dont see how that leads to a different net
Ah, I’m not giving a full picture there. Technically you can use layered encryption like tor uses on the clearnet. Tor additionally exposes tor-only services that route exclusively via tor’s onion routing (not just http wrapped inside an encryption onion).
i2p works differently under the hood, but the shared piece is exclusive services, only accessible through a non-standard protocol. That’s how you’d get a different web. Unless we’re talking physical layer stuff.
I thought about i2p, too. But what do we use it for? Torrents!
Selfhosted hookers, like Gator:
this community is dead, the day Canada, U.S. and Eu asks lemmy to "verify" our ages
or we're all on a vpn connected to a server in ??? Mongolia?
I already use tor to connect to Lemmy.
Tor won't help if the instance is in U.K. (or soon Canada &c) and responsible for "verifying your age"
I guess the instance needs to use tor too.
it is not helping him now, so at least he will be familiar with that feeling 😂
I've already said goodbye to "the internet" 3 times. Social media destroyed web 2.0, which destroyed the original web, which destroyed the original Usenet and telnet internet.
coming from a conservative media outlet instantly tanks any claim's credibility imo
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The UK populace doesn't get nearly enough shit for all of the bullshit they have caused. They are the fucking Alabama of Europe.
The ruling British class, sure. The average British citizen is impacted by this, rather than enacting the change though.
It's kind of like how a select few people in the states decide healthcare shouldn't be affordable, and everyone else just has to accept it; despite living in one of the richest countries in the history of the human race.
The reality is both nations have the same group of people pulling the strings behind the scenes; anyone who believes they have any say in either country is either not paying attention, or an idiot.
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"What we are witnessing right now is the death of the free internet and the birth of a new digital dictatorship. No longer can we be trusted to decide for ourselves what content is appropriate or correct. Everything must instead be filtered through the state’s definition of ‘safety,’ telling us what is safe to say, see, or believe. Under the guise of protecting children and fighting ‘hate,’ governments are creating the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen."
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Everytime I hear about some draconian internet law it's always coming out of the UK.
I have a long-running theory that we're the US's testing ground for authoritarian nonsense. If they roll it out here and it doesn't get too much resistance, it'll show up in the US in the next 3-5 years.
It's Foucault's boomerang, but the last beta before bringing it home.
I could see that being the case, though the US has been testing things in the same vein itself.
India was the traditional testing ground. If she is no longer that, than US hegemony has definitely weakened.
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