[Clint Williams]

Store&forward Fidonet?

Once the fate of the Internet is in the hands of government the tyranny is complete.

[Para-Ord.45]

Rushkoff thinks government take over/control of the net is “corporate” control !?

[JRandomFreeper]

Government can only control the hardware. And since the internet suite of protocols are protocols, ie.. agreements on how to communicate, governments can't control internets.

And there are already many internets. Some connected, some not. And the connections can and do change minute by minute.

So the whole premise of this is bogus.

/johnny

[Larry Lucido]

There have been a few times I’ve wanted to fork the internet.

[onedoug]

I don´t think my ISP wants to go out of business.

[zeugma]

Store&forward Fidonet?

Fidonet would work, but a lot of us don't have landlines anymore.

OTOH, it's actually extremely easy to route around a lot of net censorship and control because the net is fundamentally not really censor friendly if you have any technical abilities at all.

[Red Boots]

Fork is a verb now ? Who knew ?

[Red Boots]

Fork is a verb now ? Who knew ?