«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html

@kensanata
> only because the routing structure of the Internet
At that time, the Internet was Usenet, a multicast system with distributed routing mechanism builtin. Now it's the World Wide Web, a unicast system with no distribution, not even Mastodon. It's the time for a distributed infrastructure to take control the Internet again.

@niconiconi @kensanata I’m going to say it.

No, I won’t. I won’t say.

Oh, alright...

What we need is... blockchain!

(Ducks from flying objects.)

@Shufei @niconiconi you definitely need to duck! 😂
But regarding resilience of the network: I really like the Cold War idea of the Internet. It can take blows. You connect to friendly nodes you trust. You disconnect misbehaving nodes. Nodes are small and postmasters are real people that help run the system.

@kensanata @niconiconi It’s still the only foundation level model which makes sense. And yet, vetting that web of trust is one of the key weaknesses which needs a real fresh look.

And soon. It looks like we may need a Fidonet reboot just to do anything we used to outside the corporate state panopticon.