Posted on 01/20/2020 4:22:28 PM PST by Openurmind
Today’s Web is far different from the electronic public square it was originally created to be. Yet there is realistic hope the Web can be liberated from the stifling restraints of Big Tech and Big Government.
Last summer, Facebook slapped this magazine’s parent organization, The John Birch Society, with a “hate speech” violation and demonetized the organization’s Facebook page for 30 days. The reason: Our July 8, 2019 print magazine cover, which included a real photograph of immigrants illegally crossing a border fence. That cover article was headlined “Immigrant Invasion” and a caption for that photo inside the magazine included the word “diseases.” Disregarding the accuracy of the photo, the headline, and the caption, Facebook deemed the post “hate speech.”
As a result of the public backlash following this magazine publishing an article about that “hate speech” violation, Facebook backed down. But the fact remains that such actions by Facebook and other social-media giants are not “isolated incidents” — they are par for the course. And while this magazine had the clout to bring pressure to bear on Facebook, individual users who find their posts removed for non-existent violations don’t have that clout. They just have to deal with it.
It is a fact beyond honest dispute that “Big Tech” is nearly — if not completely — synonymous with “liberal.” The evidence of the past few years has clearly demonstrated that liberals have used Big Tech as a tool to push the world closer and closer to their vision for it — a world where liberalism is the only view, all others having been demolished. Both the Internet and the Web have been used as pivotal tools in that leftward push. As the Web continues to evolve technologically, there is both the danger that the trend toward liberal totalitarianism will continue, and the hope that the stranglehold which makes that trend possible will be broken.
Bittorrent is the future.
I think the concept of micropayments for all content died because 1) users expect free as in not paying for it and 2) it could put a cap on monetizing your usage. If you paid for the content, you are less likely to accept being monetized.
The subscription model on individual sites is untenable. Nobody want to subscribe to a small site just to get a story or two. Most subscriptions are simply to capture your identity. The big guns can get away with it, most cannot.
I think so too. Just set up servers to handle only a specific unique (dot)”domain” and only one special anonymous browser client with a serial number that can only access this unique domain. The serial number only for simple policing purposes to shutdown access for illegal usage. No other ties in any other way, no IP addresses nothing, just the unique anonymous numbered browser to access this unique domain.
I was today just thinking about old the old web of the 90s, and how the next 10 years has to be about decentralization and fragmentation. About the return of the “website” that is unconnected and a thing onto itself. Like FR has always been. Were you dont login with a social media account or “share” between places. Where its size isnt on par with the size of full programs back 15 years ago, full of bloated code, and CPU-eating elements.
All of this complexity lead to a shrinking number of people that could just DIY a website in HTML on Wordpad, making the web ripe for social media sites to give you a pseudo website of your own in exchange for the right to control your ability to exist online.
Yep,their are several open source projects on Github and I think Brave is working on one.
That is still totally feasible and easy to do. But the problem comes in with traffic. Carrier access capacity and the server bandwidth resources needed to accommodate lots of traffic adds up very fast. This is how the big companies ended up stealing it all in the first place. They could afford to put this huge traffic capacity server infrastructure in place.
We have to remember back when it was all dial in servers and capacity was pretty limited on a small scale and folks had to wait their turn in line to get in on a board. And even then you had to have several incoming lines to a server. And those actually using the internet were far and few in between, not everyone like now.
“synonymous with ‘liberal.’”
There is nothing liberal or progressive about the Left. They are illiberal and regressive. Calling them neo-feudalists, or totalitarians or homicidal utopians would be more descriptive.
There's a difference? I've always thought they were one and the same.
From the article: “ Think of the Internet as the hardware and the Web as the software.”
Internet is the connection and Web is the content.
That's a distinction without a difference to most people, who view the terms as one and the same.
Morning buddy, I was off on a project yesterday while the site was down. And knowing you, you already went and looked for it? The internet is the whole of the infrastructure and the Wold Wide Web is just a small slice of it we have registered, indexed, and searchable. TOR network is part of the internet but not part of the “Web”. The internet is unlimited, It is what we want to make it with hardware and browsers.
And this is how another whole web could be created to dump the little controlled abused slice we use now. Another infrastructure of unique servers with a matching unique browser client to access these servers. This is similar how TOR works, and it would squash this big tech control and abuse. It is just that easy and I have no clue why someone has not done this yet like TOR did. It’s a big freeway out there, we just need to build a better chain of truckstops for all those travelers to patron. :)
“That’s a distinction without a difference to most people, who view the terms as one and the same.”
You are absolutely right. It is a long time misconception. And this misconception is promoted and supported by big tech who enjoy control of it and think they own it.
“the SAFE Network, the world’s first autonomous and decentralised data network.....”
What happens when the Big Data commies decide to hold all or most of the world's corporations hostage with that control of their data?
The only corporations that will survive are the ones who still have their own physical data storage.
Yep, that is the idea. Beaker Browser is another one working on similar but they do not hide IP addresses. The whole problem with these concepts is that local and major carrier ISP PoP connections such as AT&T or Verizon can shut down access to these if they become popular.
The move to these would have to be enormous so that in order to keep any customers they would have to also allow access to these concepts. Demand would have to the majority or they would just shut down access at our local gateway.
https://beakerbrowser.com/about/
Yep, that is a problem for sure.
And this is how another whole web could be created to dump the little controlled abused slice we use now.
You write so well, and so passionately about this subject. You really should consider writing about it on a professional level.
A second WWW may soon become necessary, due to all of the censorship and suppression of conservative speech online. We're going to need knowledgeable leaders like you, to show the way.
Kind words my friend considering the misspellings, missing words, and poor grammar Sir. I have read your work here, and you do very very well yourself my friend... :)
Sometimes I get lucky and it falls together somewhat. This particular topic has been worded and reworded in my mind many times now because I have shared the concept so many times over the years. :)
I really wish I had more skills to understand it much more to fully implement the wildcat domain theory. TOR does this through the “.onion” URL domain extension. Be nice to find a team to put together a small test server and build a unique browser client to match. I don’t think it would be much harder than building a unique corporate “intranet”. These company intranets are basically private webs and make up much of the part of the internet that is not controlled by the WWW. It is all based on a unique domain name structure and authentication between the two.
I would have a small “private club” test server set up already, but my connection and service situation here sucks as you know. Be nice to team up with someone who has at least a DSL line who could set up a server and utilize a static IP to give it a test run. The question is would the existing infrastructure services allow it through Point to point with an unregistered Domain. I don’t know quite enough about how it works to say it would. But it sure is worth exploring to find out. :)
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