«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 which is why we need to build p2p, trustless, zero knowledge infrastructure on top of the Internet.
@profoundlynerdy Maybe. I’m also not opposed to smaller networks of people who trust each other – communities. We have thousands of years of experience in how to build those communities. It’s mostly the centralisation that I bemoan.
@kensanata Fair enough. If you want small communities then Mastodon and Diaspora are probably perfect fits.
@kensanata I'm with you. Security is hard. Security that works transparently or intuitively that also protects the [quite possibly stupid] user from himself is *much* harder.
I do think it will get easier over time as various technologies mature. I also think it will take a series of "killer apps" that just happen to run over anonymity networks or the like.
@profoundlynerdy I guess I fear that a «p2p, trustless, zero knowledge infrastructure» is going to be a dark and lonely place. Perhaps that’s because things are in their infancy. If getting connected with all these services is as easy as buying a phone one day, then perhaps it won’t make a difference.