Posted on 06/22/2020 5:15:53 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Internet was born out of efforts to build a decentralized network that could survive a nuclear war. What made the internet so liberating in its early years of mass adoption was the very decentralized nature, the haphazard networks that did not require a rigid integrated hierarchy, that had made it useful to the military, that allowed everyone to have a voice without regard to political hierarchies.
The underlying bare-bones infrastructure that made the open internet possible still exists, but has little relevance to a system dominated by a handful of platforms like Google and Amazon. The infrastructure of these companies may be decentralized, but their leadership has centralized control over the services that define how most companies and individuals actually use the internet and connect to each other.
Anyone can create a website, but as long as most internet traffic is controlled by Google and Facebook, that site can at any moment be made invisible to most Internet users at a swipe from a Big Tech giant. The decentralized structure of the internet will always allow pockets of resistance, but the centralized structure of the companies that dominate it means that they will be easily kept isolated out of sight.
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ISPs like Comcast could block a site without a whisper.
And lose subscribers just as fast.
A lot of times the ISP is the only game in town. It’s tied in with cable and phone service.
Defund academia.
Not sure where you’re getting that. I checked a random town of 36,000 in NV and they have 20 ISPs. My town has ISPs that have been around since the mid 90s.
ComCrap lost me as a subscriber last Wednesday. I suspect a lot more people are dropping them.
BenLurkin, I believe you have something there.
With say Comcast, it’s very difficult to change the package. They make it very difficult.
the only way to stop socialism is to destroy socialists
The internet is a total echo chamber. You see it on Twitter, FR, and DU. Anything with comments tends to end up that way.
I still like that, the internet should be the ‘wild west’ like it was in the 90’s. If you get a big name and following, you are in command and have the right to your site’s content. If you don’t like it, find another site or start your own. There’s still endless options.
“Decentralize”?
The author doesn’t know how the Internet works.
“The internet is a total echo chamber.”
It’d be hilarious if the situation wasn’t so dire.
Liberals pride themselves on being “progressive” and “radical thinking” yet they want to do to the internet what they did to all other media they control ... a single voice that allows absolutely no dissent + your life as you know it is over if you speak your mind and your identity is known.
If these idiotic leftist ideas are so great, why in the hell do they require so much duplicity???
Well we have OAN, semi-Fox, and FR and a few others. They have DU, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and some others.
They also have Facebook and Twitter, the biggest for many. All I can say is that it was a miracle Trump won in 2016 and it’ll be another miracle if he wins 2020.
The internet was designed and implemented as decentralized!
Google and the other internet giants have effectively amassed all power for themselves. They control what websites are found, and they monitor and control expression of thought. THAT must stop. They must be put out of business for their monopoly on the internet.
It is called IPFS, work in process but it is ripe for a breakthrough. It is almost ready for breakout, might happen by the end of the year.
Are you fairly familiar with IPFS? I have been researching it and was curious how one could implement it to use like a simple community board?
There are youtube videos on how to do that. There is even an app you can download. You have to watch how IPFS works to understand it and leverage it.
It is like a brand new internet.
A one man website cannot be kept online. It will get hacked.
Antifa is made up of the hacker generation. If your site gathers viewers, it will not be allowed to stand.
I have wondered how FR itself stays online with such a small staff continuously attempting to attack it. Granted a lot of money is donated to it, perhaps JR has some good secondary security staff on hand as well.
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