I've been thinking about that for a while. you can get a halfway decent used router dirt cheap. If enough people linked their routers, you could make an independent intranet that, while not impossible to shut down, would be a royal pain in the ass to do so.
Obviously, you'd need a lot of people to agree to set up such a thing outside of specific localities, but it wouldn't be impossible.
There are a lot of closed communities on the internet, locked away behind encrypted networks. All of them are probably not actually secure, though. Distributed file sharing network are almost impossible to shut down. They have been trying to shut down the Pirate Bay for over a decade. McAfee was a genius if he put his data up on an encrypted coin network, though. There really is no way to shut it down. That's where the data from people who want the truth will end up.
What I'm saying is if for whatever reason, the government decided to step in and shut down the primary hub servers, or tell ISPS to deny service "temporarily," a distributed, peer-to-peer router network could serve as a sort of independent intratnet, but you'd need a shitton of people to set up servers, routers, etc. for the network to function over any distance.
The hardware is relatively cheap, just an old computer to act as a webserver and a halfway decent router to broadcast the signal. it's the software side where I think it would be a pain in the ass to set up, especially if every router is to also act as a repeater, replicating the signal over any kind of distance.
The Internet is hurting and helping us. If it weren't for the internet, I would not have been able to research the jab or find alternate websites for the truth.
Bill Cosby is free now, but when he was raping women, the internet did not exist. He probably never imagined all those women would ever possibly connect with each other to bring him down.
I'ma put the Bill Cosby thing in the Brett Kavanaugh category and leave it there.
But regarding the internet, there's a quote by Thomas Sowell that I find has a shocking number of uses...
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs."
There's a lot of good things that have come out of the internet, and a lot of bad things. It's still too early to say what the long-term outcome of the internet existing will be, but I think getting rid of it would have a lot of downsides as well as up.
I've been thinking about that for a while. you can get a halfway decent used router dirt cheap. If enough people linked their routers, you could make an independent intranet that, while not impossible to shut down, would be a royal pain in the ass to do so.
Obviously, you'd need a lot of people to agree to set up such a thing outside of specific localities, but it wouldn't be impossible.
There are a lot of closed communities on the internet, locked away behind encrypted networks. All of them are probably not actually secure, though. Distributed file sharing network are almost impossible to shut down. They have been trying to shut down the Pirate Bay for over a decade. McAfee was a genius if he put his data up on an encrypted coin network, though. There really is no way to shut it down. That's where the data from people who want the truth will end up.
What I'm saying is if for whatever reason, the government decided to step in and shut down the primary hub servers, or tell ISPS to deny service "temporarily," a distributed, peer-to-peer router network could serve as a sort of independent intratnet, but you'd need a shitton of people to set up servers, routers, etc. for the network to function over any distance.
The hardware is relatively cheap, just an old computer to act as a webserver and a halfway decent router to broadcast the signal. it's the software side where I think it would be a pain in the ass to set up, especially if every router is to also act as a repeater, replicating the signal over any kind of distance.
The Internet is hurting and helping us. If it weren't for the internet, I would not have been able to research the jab or find alternate websites for the truth.
Bill Cosby is free now, but when he was raping women, the internet did not exist. He probably never imagined all those women would ever possibly connect with each other to bring him down.
And here we are, all talking to each other.
I'ma put the Bill Cosby thing in the Brett Kavanaugh category and leave it there.
But regarding the internet, there's a quote by Thomas Sowell that I find has a shocking number of uses...
There's a lot of good things that have come out of the internet, and a lot of bad things. It's still too early to say what the long-term outcome of the internet existing will be, but I think getting rid of it would have a lot of downsides as well as up.