This is sort of a followup to the "Venting about forums.debian.net", but somewhat different and different enough that I thought I should start a new thread.
I'll ask my question, then give some background afterwards: I wonder if a new more private Internet could be created on top of the existing Internet maybe where all participants communicate by VPN (or maybe all sites are encrypted (or have encrypted sections after an unencrypted portal). I thought about (and quickly discarded) the idea that a new Internet could be created, with all necessary physical and non-physical infrastructure from which bad actors could simply be excluded. (Or kicked out if they are found to be bad actors.) I'm wondering if, as an alternative to that, some sort of private encrypted network could be created? Maybe some hosting providers would have to adapt by encrypting most of their content (with some sort of unencrypted "portals" would be available to sign up to access the encrypted content). On further thinking (not much :-( , I guess such a thing would quickly run into the same problems (of bad actors doing various things). Just wanted to put this out there -- maybe somebody has a similar (or not so similar) idea that might help. Aside: I don't know much about the dark web (other than that it exists) -- is that in any way similar to this or a possible aid to solving the problem?
