Wtf bs is this? Can't governments just stop trying to control the internet?

It's literally the closest thing we have to a free and fair society on the planet and that's with all the tracking and abuse of information going on. I think we need to start applying our minds to creating a decentralised network with p2p discovery routed through our phones if we want to keep any semblance of freedom of speech or privacy around for our kids. Routing traffic wouldnt use more than 50-100mb of ram and would probably use a lot less battery than Google does listening to our conversations or transmiting our location data so we wouldn't even notice. If only we could find a cable free decentalized way to get data across the ocean no one would be able to control it again, I doubt we would be able to shut it down either.

That's why we need Richard Hendricks and the pied Piper team

@norman70688 wtf?

That could be accomplished with sattelites, but the costs are too prohibitive to make it "non profitable". Therefore there would be commercial interests involved, but hopefully not governments.
I think both Google and Facebook have projects like that, maybe not with sattelites, but wireless global-scale Internet access.

@lucaspar Google uses modified weather balloons but using them would be no different to the under sea cables - there is a single entity that has complete control and access to the gateway whereas if for example it was replaced and the traffic was bounced across a few thousand peoples phones you would need to exploit at least 51% of them to trace a request.

It's all just a pipedream for now but the only way to enforce a safe and free digital space would be to cut out the government, isps and mobile providers. In theory giving each user the ability to act as a router and bounce requests in exchange for sending their own would be ideal. that is truly decentralised and it would be safe to assume that with 6 billion devices any change to the network is the will of the people and the reflection of the network evolving as society changes.

@kurtr I'm no expert on this but I know a devRanter who is; @PerfectAsshole,I summon you ;)

I believe majority people out there are dunces who believe in bullshit like net neutrality is bad. And there will be some money eating dumbfuck media corporation that says "decentralizing" internet and taking control away from governments can cause security flaws and allow terrorists to freely operate and these halfwits would believe them making the process potentially difficult.
I don't say it's bad. But dimwits such as these are a problem. Them dimwits voted for Brexit without knowing what the fuck it means. Them dimwits voted to repeal net neutrality without knowing fuck about it and it's benefits. Them dimwits always choose to take decisions that destroys them.

@kurtr @lucaspar
I believe there is such thing.
Being developed a few years ago the official idea was to support earth quake ridden areas with 'instant' net in order to forward people needing and providing help.
Haven't heard of it for a while.
But one uncle worked on bringing it to Mid- & South-America.
A kind of easy set up Tor thing for end users?

@linuxxx **appears in a poof of smoke**

You don't have to replace the existing infrastructure just build on top of it. Replacing it is too cost prohibitive. As for social networks the best thing to do is to use an eliptical curve signing system to verify users so nobody can impersonate anybody else and use dht to distibute messages around connected devices. While this wouldn't fix all problems if all websites started switching to something simular it would be damn hard for anybody to charge/block websites

**disappears**

@norman70688 Why don't you raise your countries GDP instead of being on DevRant? I mean, you could work right now, it's not like you actually need breaks.