Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)

This weakness has become especially apparent in recent years when governments react to civil unrest or protests by shutting off the internet. Signal doesn't help much when the data pipes stop flowing.

I recall hearing about another privacy-focused messaging app that could be used peer-to-peer with Bluetooth, though I cannot recall its name. Edit: I think it was Briar? Not something I'm familiar with.

A protest or other meatspace collective organized through a mesh net would be cut off and disrupted to the point where the network would be viewed as unreliable. Kids on horses are far more reliable.

Mesh networks to share information broadly are susceptible to misinformation campaigns, partisan politics, and the simple problem of covering vast distances with pedestrian tech. AM Radio is far more reliable.

But yes, pseudoanonymity is important.

Naturally when it's your turn to have the boot on your neck I'm sure you'll lamely acquiesce to the situation because, after all, nobody owes you anything.

Sometimes tortious interference really is tortious interference. Sometimes common carriers need to be regulated as common carriers.

Nobody gets born in void and from void & not sharing faith of kinds, he never chose, just by own unique starting point he was spawn in.

You are born with roots & strings attached to everything around that specific spot.

nobody ever in history existed as a free electron.

Being born as a slave 2000 years ago is reality millions of people still experience just under different cultural name.

Pretending world works other way is just a wishful thinking of somebody lucky to isolate himself in own bubble, illusory reality.

BTW you probably were born in West and it itself means being born already indebted by decisions of generations before you & forced to pay collective ransom for their collective mistakes.

Every person owns to own parents for getting born, the less siblings has the more owns them, no matter what kind of raising got. Except if you believe it to be their debt to repay for own existence.

Asshole will never admit to being asshole himself but will see assholes even where there are none to make himself look better.

Asshole will deny all reality before him coming to the world & claim all his imaginary rights to start fresh as if being the first entitled human in history. Like the first exeuropean farmer immigrant on stolen commonly indian land.

Despite obviously being a one generic part of bigger picture, of long chain that will be still growing & continuing long after him and his meaningless brief moment of rebelling against own nature, origin & higher level purpose passess.

Cables put by my ancestors are co-owned by them, and through them by me, the same as right to send data through it anyway I wish, the same as land payed for for eternity by their blood, tears, scars, sweat, the same as their ideals & dreams, and space of mental freedom created by their thoughts & physical efforts. The same as public national forests. The same as free water & air. The same as common treasures under common ground & what living nature yields on that common wild & put loose territory.

And I owe to my fellow co-owners respect for their rightful share, even if they ignore own inborn rights, as long as they don't make it less as they are managing it faithfully & pass it to those after them.

The same as to those outsiders who come to build & increase this heritage in good will becoming part of it freely & by buying recognition through their sacrifices to this common eternal monument.

Betraying these principles & selling all national, historical land to some big entities or new monarchy doesn't change rightful ownership. You can take it back any time you want.

The same when a King betrays nation and gives away national crown to other foreign crown cutting off royal line of succession, as long as his blood exists, obligation to lead the nation exists too & can be restored by will of nation. As long as blood & myth lives as long the historical law of continuity is in power. Similarly with multigenerational ownership of a piece of land by a family or clan. the same family law, on smaller scale until the last one dies or looses memory of it.

All problems started when people were forced to live on territory in proportion comparable to a rathole without self-sustainability. Then all the competition & forced pyramidal centralisation & ratrace started. Farming at start helped to later make it worse by creation of rat colonies, called cities, full of assholes claiming nobody owns them nothing & they not own anything to blood related neighbours, even when an uninvited war or domestic aggression bites their "free" asses equally.

The situation was patently absurd -- the chance somebody called in a swatting and included the name of their online persona is far lesser than it being a false flag attack.

I think it's naive to accept claims like this at face value.

Kiwi Farms is an extremely controversial website that people are constantly trying to take down by any means necessary, including DDOS and hacking. Isn't it suspicious that in the midst of a massive public campaign against KF, someone SWATs a far-right political figure and then calls back to say "by the way I am <well-known user> on KF"?

My only gripe with the whole thing is that we shouldn't rely nor give private companies such power. That is something that provider should have deferred to judiciary, and then acted upon their direction.

There is a scale question in there to be solved, but frankly it's scary how much power comes from the oligopolization of certain aspect of the infrastructure. It's not even just internet, payment processors are so few they can literally meet in a zoom call and decide you won't do any business in half of the world.

I know that Finland will disagree with me here, but the internet is not a "fundamental service". It is set of insanely complex systems built and maintained at large cost by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.

If I own a car dealership, or a bakery, I have the right to refuse service to anyone who walks in and insults me. Similarly, I think ISPs have the right, as businesses, to refuse service to anyone, for any reason.

Now you could argue something like "but it's a public good! The government pays for a part of it!". This is true, but you can say the same thing about the road system - the entity responsible for creating the road system (in this case, the government) has the power to decided under what conditions it can be used. For example, if you drive drunk, you can be excluded from the road system, 'fundamental rights' be damned.

Despite the lofty rhetoric of post-Enlightenment constitutions, it is wise to remember that the so-called 'social-contract' [0] is, like any contract, a two way engagement. You get police protection and education and access to services, ONLY on the condition that you play by the rules.

[0] and that's assuming we avoid the cynical anarchist view that really, a government is just a glorified protection racket imposing its will upon you by coercion.

KF is at best passively in support of doxing and of harassing people or at worst actively doing both of it.

[1]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

Do not believe everything you read when looking at the heavy drama parts of the infosphere.

A paywall is annoying but solvable with a wallet. Being behind the great firewall isn't.