A new internet

[Tahuti]

Some authoritarian countries have contemplated creating their own internet so they would be better able to spy on their countrymen, on which I once started a thread. With the fact that SOPA may be passed anyway, do you think it's likely a new internet will be started, should SOPA ever come that far? One that is not within the jurisdiction of SOPA, at least for the moment? Would you sign up for the new internet? And what would be the ramifications?

 

[Skwink]

Yeah, let's start our own internet!

 

[cardgame]

Well, the authoritarian networking systems are more of an intranet than internet. But hell yeah I'd join the new internet.

 

[classical_hero]

 

[MantaRevan]

At this point, things aren't exactly looking good for SOPA. I don't think this is quite necessary yet.

 

[Zelig]

I already have my own internet.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Ideally we get our hands on a new country, first.

 

[Tahuti]

At this point, things aren't exactly looking good for SOPA. I don't think this is quite necessary yet.

Actually, Obama might sign it anyway, perhaps after his re-election. After all, Herbert Hoover didn't approve of the Smoot-Hawley act in principal, but ended up signing it anyway, worsening the great depression with the trade wars these tariff hikes led to.

 

[mayor]

Ideally we get our hands on a new country, first.

We've got a Sealander on CFC, let's go there

 

[mitsho]

You mean, one for corporate and political institutions, "official" ones. And one for private persons?

 

[Tahuti]

You mean, one for corporate and political institutions, "official" ones. And one for private persons?

Sortof.

 

[Antilogic]

We've got a Sealander on CFC, let's go there

We do? Who?

 

[mayor]

We do? Who?

I was pretty sure this guy is from Sealand....

 

[kochman]

Some authoritarian countries have contemplated creating their own internet so they would be better able to spy on their countrymen, on which I once started a thread. With the fact that SOPA may be passed anyway, do you think it's likely a new internet will be started, should SOPA ever come that far? One that is not within the jurisdiction of SOPA, at least for the moment? Would you sign up for the new internet? And what would be the ramifications?

The we can call it all... "the internets"... and mean it!

 

[BvBPL]

Actually, a guy on my local cable access station mentioned this today. He suggested that a form of SOPA could become the catalyst for the creation of a new internet, one more like the idea of the internet we had in the mid 90's before the companies took it over.

The problem with that is that the people WANT highly produced content that only large companies are capable of producing on a regular basis. Amateur material and thoughts and ideas don't pass muster with the hoi polloi.

 

[Tahuti]

I think the GNU/GPL movement would both be powerful enough and certainly willing to back such a project on a substantial scale.

Also, note that the required equipment is more readily available than in the 90s.