Posted on 02/27/2015 4:21:03 AM PST by Biggirl
I hope JimRob has a plan for an alternate FR site. I suspect that this might be one of the first targets for 0bama’s gestapo.
Look for “outernet” to grow very fast as a way to counter-act this action.
The problem with the concept of the “outernet” is that it still requires use of core infrastructure on the Internet!
Understand that the Internet is not this autonomous nebula of interconnected devices. There are a small number of high-level global root servers that act as the authority for all domain name services across the globe. If you think you can fire up this “outernet” and browse to FreeRepublic.com, you’ll only get to it by routing through an Internet DNS provider to FR, assuming FR is still online.
In order for an “outernet” to actually work, you would have to have participants agree to use only “outernet-based” endpoints with “outernet-based” infrastructure. That means setting up a standalone network in parallel to the current Internet infrastructure and allowing it to work without outside interference.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but a truly global or even regional effort to make it happen would require an enormous amount of heavy lifting including infrastructure engineers, network engineers, systems architects, and security professionals all working in concert to ensure the experience is functional, redundant, useful, and safe.
The problem with government interference is that most people will tolerate it. It’ll be “Oh, I never went to that site, so it doesn’t affect me.” By the time the government has pruned your access down to nothing but the sites and endpoints they can track, you’re left with a smoldering husk of what used to be called the Internet, and you’ll probably be hard-pressed to find those engineers (alive or otherwise) since most of them are either working for the government or dead because they refused to assimilate.
To really have a loss of sleep night, imagine the following:
the queer-In_Charge, the imposing increase of government regulation, and ......
Orville and Wilbur Wright having finished their first glider, (which would in today’s world give us the Wright flyer), and they having to prove that they built it.
Zero just checking off his bucket list.
plus I’m sure you need gubmint permission to launch a rocket with a satellite.
Biggirl, we’ve had this discussion before: the Outernet is “jacked into” the Internet. If you think that by using a different ISP you are going to bypass the controlling global root DNS servers, you’re living a pipe dream. There’s a reason we should be fighting for the Internet as-is and not just throwing up our hands in defeat.
This is one way of fighting.
Even it says it will get around censorship.
Remember tech is still ahead of the government.
.....As to leave a mess behind for a GOP President to have to start to clean-up.
Do not comply.
AMEN to that!
That is what is going to happen more and more, mark my words.
This is power grab and treason.
Impeach obama, NOW!
You mean “Rachael” from Card Holder Services???? She calls me quite a lot too.
Certainly in relative densely populated areas a local parallel network could be assembled using largely existing infrastructure.
We obviously have no need to obey laws and regulations we do not agree to or accept.
Do both.
It’s hard to explain without getting exceptionally technical, but if you’re trying to access anything that’s on the Internet by using a resource outside of Internet’s direct network, you still have to traverse the Internet to get to that site. You’re talking about acting as an untraceable endpoint, and that’s grand, but if the UN controls the global root servers for the Internet, do you really think they’re going to let you traverse the Internet to a site that’s been globally blacklisted?
You’d be better off spending your time researching how to use proxies and VPN than to try configuring an ersatz external network of individual devices. Encryption and misdirection still work!
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