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dmnEPC

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The 'founder'of the internet Tim Berners-lee is promoting the web we want this month and tie that to the censoring of the IS/isil/alquedea/Taliban propaganda videos. YouTube takes important videos down all day everyday.

So my question is, how can the web be taken back. When I say taken back I envision a web where there is a big "public square". A common area that nobody owns, or controls. Torrents kind of do it, but they are to complicated and demonized. Is peer to peer or maybe mesh networking the only way it's possible? I know bitcoin has similar programs, but that is probably to complicated.

The us .gov is building what's called parallel construction with seperate networks. Maybe that's what is needed.

I have no idea but something is going to need to be done to keep the internet free and open.
 


With the popularity of Firechat picking up in censored areas, mesh networking is a reality. It has a ways to go, but if you look at how the original internet started, mesh networks are going to do the same thing IMO.

OpenBazaar is the solution to e-com.

Popcorn makes Youtube useless once the videos are able to be embedded.

Really, it's not a matter of if, but when all of this technology becomes the norm.
 
music4mic said:
With the popularity of Firechat picking up in censored areas, mesh networking is a reality. It has a ways to go, but if you look at how the original internet started, mesh networks are going to do the same thing IMO.

OpenBazaar is the solution to e-com.

Popcorn makes Youtube useless once the videos are able to be embedded.

Really, it's not a matter of if, but when all of this technology becomes the norm.
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The problem is the most disruptive technology is suppressed. Popcorn time was killed in days. Truecrypt killed. Just look at internet tv. What a joke. Yet the tech is readily available to make cable obsolete.
 
Wasn't even aware there was an event at The Southbank. Will have to check out November's one. TBL is a legend of our times.
 
microphone head said:
Wasn't even aware there was an event at The Southbank. Will have to check out November's one. TBL is a legend of our times.
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This. Thanks for posting OP.

Isn't TOR a mesh-network of sorts..? I guess freenet could be considered it too, especially in terms of how the presented data is stored. I just can't see something like that ever catching on in the mainstream, when commercial factors are pushing everything (including processing) towards ever larger datacentres. Perhaps offshore hosting will become the modern equivalent of offshore banking?

On the hardware side of things, Bluetooth has beaten Zigbee, but it's got a long way to go in terms of speed for modern applications.
 
dmnEPC said:
The problem is the most disruptive technology is suppressed. Popcorn time was killed in days. Truecrypt killed. Just look at internet tv. What a joke. Yet the tech is readily available to make cable obsolete.
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Truecrypt wasn't killed. It's open source software, and now there's a new fork of Truecrypt in development even though the original team discontinued it.
 
popcorntime and truecrypt are both alive. The media just likes to report on these things being "killed" because its sensational. Once the code is out there anyone can do whatever the fuck they want.
 
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