You have been making many points that are insightful and worth talking about in themselves but that don't support a clear argument. This is perhaps a pitfall of the point-by-point forum response style that I also tend toward. However, the timing and frequency with which you temporarily reframe the discussion with interesting but tangential points comes across as evasive, which is perhaps why Magic Banana is not patient to follow them all. I think it will help if for now you can stick to topics that support your most important arguments.
If I follow correctly, your main point is that the four freedoms and community control of software are insufficient to be 100% certain that software is privacy-respecting. Magic Banana and I have each acknowledged this, but have asked if you know of a better solution apart from avoiding software (including Linux, GNU, and Chromium) altogether. Your responses have touched on a wide array of issues, but none that address this question. Perhaps your secondary argument is that the design of the Internet is flawed because it requires compromises between security, privacy, and convenience. I agree that an internet without such physical limitaions would be objectively better, but in the absence of a concrete suggestion for one, wishing that the Internet behaved like radio or cherry picking definitions of 'freedom' that are ambiguous as to whether it is the absence of imposed or natural limitations is unproductive. Ealier in this thread, you mentioned that you have some ideas about this. > Hence my idea about a new network. Sharing these might get the conversation back on track.
