Forum Post: Protect IP Act / Corporations trying to censor the net
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 12:20 p.m. EST by ebarizzo
(5)
from Anaheim, CA
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
Can we get behind this and make this one of our priorities? Losing the freedom that we have on the internet would be a huge blow.
Thanks for the link. I did not know about pipa, and it seems scary. You're right, we can't let OWS distract us from what's happening in washington.
Though I think this law would backfire on people who want control. It could lead to an "undernet" - a peer2peer internet built on IP and cryptography alone.
I feel an undernet would not be as easily accessible to people who are not as technologically literate and may prevent the spread of information through what we know of as the internet. Of course, I'm aware that if and/or when the powers that be try to place a stronghold on what we now know as the internet that there will be a replacement. Some 4chan people were already working on a series of boxes or something or other that are to be spread throughout the world as a successor to the internet in the event that massive censorship would occur.
I have heard of meshbox: http://locustworld.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=6&page=1 - basically a wifi node for a peer2peer network. Of course it only works in dense areas. Maybe with wifi dishes it would work in a rural area.
I think it would get easier eventually. Like, a version of firefox designed to work with such an undernet. I've tried of these networks out in the past (probably 5 years ago) but it was really slow. Some new networks, like magnet: links that bittorrent is using, seem a lot faster and are completely distributed. I know that technology will prevail here, so long as we can send data and buy computers without bugging devices.