Really nice analysis. Thanks.
I wonder what it would take to host a website and be reasonably outside the blast radius of any of the parties you named as controlling the internet.
I wonder what it would take to host a website and be reasonably outside the blast radius of any of the parties you named as controlling the internet.
Currently the main weak point is ISPs. It’s not impossible to find hosts who will ignore complaints, but ISPs in the middle of the route can start disrupting traffic and causing connectivity issues for people in certain areas.
In general though it does seem like there is a need for more infrastructure hosts who stick to enforcing the law and just ignore the twitter drama. Epik domains and Terrahost seem to be leading this category.
Have your own ASIN network.
Have machines in datacenters that peer with multiple tier-1 providers.
Spend a lot of money.
Or run everything on an onion.
Let's say you get banned (somehow) by backbone, but you have one other middlebox willing to proxy you.
You're still visible! You're just behind that middlebox's routing. In fact, if you enplace yourself within an AS as an Authoritative DNS provider, suddenly, you da boss. I can make (from my network's point of view) facebook.com resolve anywhere I want for requests coming from within it. Now. If I had a channel to receive updates on the address of a service the big guys were trying to crush, say, TPB, my resplver can be updated to resolve that without honoring upstream.
This was actually how DNS started. It was just lists of host names to IP's/ARPANet addresses.
The challenge is always figuring out how to distribute notice of the changes.