[email protected] wrote: > 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).
Certainly. The technology exists and is performant on even not-so-state-of-the-art hardware - Wireguard, already in the Debian kernel. You will run into the following first-order problems: * Convincing other people you like to join you. * Governing the ensuing organization. * Looking exactly like a revolutionary cabal. > 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.) If all the participants are close by each other, yes. See "meshnet" and variants. Radio-frequency networks. This also runs into the above three problems. Social problems have social solutions, aided by technology, not technical solutions. -dsr-
