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RE: The Battle for Net Neutrality - What Can We Do?!

in #netneutrality7 years ago

There are some folks still using the #stacktivism hashtag and Heath Bunting's stuff from the '90's has become popular as art: )

Actually getting around the ISP problem in a country like the US seems like tricky business, since being allocated a block of addresses that ISP's like Comcast recognize (along with obtaining other identifiers etc) requires creating settlement-free "peering agreements" with those kinds of companies in order for data to be shared/sharable across all networks. There is no way to do this without a ton of money and political clout.

Alternatively, it is theoretically possible to simply physically build a parallel internet and use this instead of the corporate network. Again, there is no way to do this without a ton of money and political clout.

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I choose option number 2! :)

This is something that we could easily make happen on a neighborhood scale. And it is not too expensive to connect thousands of neighborhood networks into a high-bandwidth global network with very, very high latency (by physically transporting data storage devices between such networks via drones or just in our pockets; ). But for something more reasonable - and easier for average people to make sense of - maybe track down Ramon Roca the next time you're in Spain and see if you can pick his brain.

So you're saying we need a ton of money and political clout. ;)

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