The world’s richest men are concentrating control over the pipes through which all of this is running, all of our information.
I’m afraid we’re in/nearing the endgame of this tug of war, and we don’t control the physical infrastructure. Without an ISP that isn’t in bed with the government/corporatocracy, I’m not sure how we even keep freedom of speech alive long-term.
It’s far from a perfect solution at this point, but I’ve been quite curious about the reticulum mesh network recently. I was looking into it as a disaster resiliency thing, but LBR, is this not also a disaster of a form?
In a similar but different vein I feel the need to callout veilid. https://veilid.com/ It’s like tor meets IPFS except no crypto involved. The idea is it’s an anonymous network and data storage scheme that’s meant to allow developers to make apps which don’t require server infrastructure and associated costs. They want functional easy to use apps to have strong privacy protections baked in instead of bolted on after by powerusers.
This looks super interesting and is new to me; definitely going to check it out, thanks!
Why is this better than tor?
Radio (and some bigass antennas i guess)
You don’t own the radio waves. The government will come after you if you run unlicensed antennas.
I just messaged them and asked them to invest in their platform and consider the Fediverse. Everyone should reach out to them [email protected] and let them know a great way to take the power back is to own your own content.
