Posted on 01/03/2015 6:38:50 PM PST by PROCON
The tax issue is minor compared to national security. Imagine a modern-day World War II where the Axis powers completely shut down the communication systems of the Allied countries.
Analog telephony is FCC limited to a certain frequnecy range. That frequnecy directly corresponds to how much bandwidth a circuit is capable of.
Switching to digital meant that the big tel-co’s bottle necked the pipeline and also allowed the FedGov to monitor everything.
As I said, real freedom on the internet during that switch-over. Everything they done since then has only made it worse.
This is a HUGE deal.
If the camel gets his nose under the tent it’s only a matter of short time that he will shit all over it.
F U B O!
How far have they been successful against Internet piracy and black marketing?
They have hit a few pirating and torrent services, but for all that they have done, there is still plenty of Internet bootlegging going on. The Internet bootleggers adapt too, as well. The government makes their own nice sanctuaries, but outside there, they aren’t apparently effective.
I imagine if you don’t like those terms don’t pay it and do without or look for alternatives.
The only centralization on the Internet is at the root DNS nameservers. These suffer ICANN only by the grace of their respective independent owners. There is nothing to prevent them from bolting and setting up a new root DNS, or from anyone else using an alternate root DNS.
All you need to do is point your computer at an alternate name server. On a Windows server, replace the file C:\Windows\System32\DNS\CACHE.DNS. On a Linux server, replace the file /etc/named.conf.
That’s it.
The pirates and hackers are already using alternate DNS roots to evade the censors. Tor doesn’t even use DNS (IIRC), just IP addresses.
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Usenet still exists.
It isn’t what it used to be. Anonymous and free.
very true.
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