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“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” -- John Gilmore (probably https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/ https://quoteinvesti
by nemoniac 3mo ago
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
-- John Gilmore (probably https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/)
- globular-toast 3mo agoThere is no "Net" any more. There probably never was really. The internet protocols were designed for resilience from the start. A key to that is packet-switching over circuit-switching. But this thing we call the "internet" today? This thing where more and more nodes can't even speak directly to each other and nobody even cares (see IPv6)? This thing where 90% of traffic goes to a few large multinationals? It's not that. We have no resistance to censorship.
- Chu4eeno 3mo agoThe problem is that the world is increasingly transitioning from the Internet to regional internet. There are companies that have gotten very good at virtual border control while selling stuff to e. g. the chinese and russians that are allegedly in talks with the UK govt.