How can we circumvent the current system and use the current
infrastructure?
On 2016-08-29 10:00, Eric Oyen wrote:
ok, I see some issues here.
first off, I am a conservative. I don't hide it but, then, I don't
trumpet it either. As far as I am concerned, politics should have very
little to do with technology or how it gets implemented.
Unfortunately, politics has injected itself into our very lives in the
form of regulations, some of which govern how we can use the net. To
my mind, that is a very bad thing. if you really want to see examples
of how bad it can get, take a look at china, russia, the entire middle
east, and some places in South America.
now that I have dispensed with the politics, I want to get down to how
we work around onerous control of the net. Someone else suggested a
mesh network. That's all fine and good until you want to communicate
outside of the local area. So, how do we expand this idea? This is
where innovation in technology comes into play. It's purely technical
and solves a problem (and no politics involved).
so, there it is, how do we work around this problem and not get
political doing it?
-eric
On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Nathan England wrote:
Amazing how clear every thing becomes when you take a deep breath!...
and
burry your head in the sand.
On Monday, August 29, 2016 1:43:22 AM MST [email protected] wrote:
My suggestion?
Taking a deep breath, pouring the Koolaid down the drain instead of
drinking
it, and repeating to yourself, "I should really stop jumping on every
conspiracy bandwagon I see."
Seriously, I have little doubt that if we had a republican president
and a
democratic majority in congress was attempting to block this very
same
change you would see articles criticizing the block and talking about
how
government can't do anything right. What's going on now is that
instead of
a single company holding a government granted monopoly to run the DNS
and
numbering system there would be a group of companies and
organizations
doing the same thing -- with a US threat to seize control of it again
if
they misbehave.
And as for fears this will lead to balkanization brought up in
another post
-- there have been threats to balkanize the Internet if control of
the DNS
system remained a monopoly held by a single US company or government
agency. This is probably a damned it you do, damned if you don't
decision.
In the long run it's probably inevitable that no matter which way
this
decision goes there will be more fracturing. We're probably very
lucky to
have gone this far with as little fracturing as there has been. I can
even
see Moral Majority types on the right demanding tighter controls over
the
Internet in the US to crack down on "adult" content which would
pretty much
require making a US Internet with closely watched gateways to the
outside
(censorship and political correctness are not something unique or
restricted to the right or left, there's just different names
attached).
Having thing not being run by one single company operating under a
government granted monopoly might make it just a slight bit harder
for that
to happen.
But really, I suppose we should panic. It's not as if the conspiracy
theorists have ever been wrong. After all Texas has been under
Martial Law
ever since Jade Helm, every Hurricane for decades has resulted in
thousands
disappearing into FEMA death camps, there's all folks who lost homes
to
imminent domain to built the Mexi-Canadian superhighway that's exempt
from
US jurisdiction, and after a decade I still haven't gotten used to
these
new Ameros that replaced the dollar...
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