The longer term goal should be to create meshnets, so we can give Internet to each other.
Direct censorship of stuff might not even be the biggest threat, though, but traffic shaping. We could avoid direct censorship if we build more P2P systems, which can't be "taken down". However, they probably could be throttled to a crawl, if the ISP is allowed to shape traffic and discriminate against the type of traffic they choose. Bitcoin for example can't be censored, but it can be made unusable.
Yes google buys internet transit, but not in Europa, they expect the users to pay for their free services when they are not north american, and they provide the "free VoIP" services this way.
Google, amazon are the problems, they don't assume the cost of their services and make it stand inequally amongst the users. Google is killing the cost model of ISP.
In this condition, how do you expect a sustainable free internet if you destroy the business model of ISP ?
Peering is just opened to anyone, and people prefer peering to buying. So people prefer to have the less possible amount of traffic leaving their AS.
http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169
They peer quite a lot even in Europa, it is a good move when you want to become an ISP.
Still they consider it is the ISP to support most of the cost of the dimensioning of the pipes. Without returned value.
Pfiou, good idea to double check.