Dust off your old Hayes or Multi Tech 19,200kbps modem. It's back to the ol' BBS boys.
Depending on how this shakes out, we may have to build a new, private Internet. Think of it as a 21st century CompuServe or AOL.
You are so correct.
And the people that can achieve that construction can attract a billion+ people away from the future model of censorship.
There are already alternatives that exist.
Dust off your old Hayes or Multi Tech 19,200kbps modem. It's back to the ol' BBS boys.
We can do peer-to-peer BBS style right now without modems.
It’s called FreeRepublic.
FR is hosted on a friendly server by a friendly guy. There are contingency plans left and right for it’s continued operation.
There are people here who are on Shortwave who can gladly relay bits and pieces here and there.
about 98% of the world calls Facebook “The internet”. They have lost focus on what the internet is: A large network. That’s it. It’s all routing and endpoints.
When the Chinese “take over” the internet as they are doing, they are actually blocking the content that most people consider “The internet”. But go to a CLI and start building routes, sending messages and browsing folders.