The way I see it, there's 2 main hurdles for truly free internet: hardware and encryption. When normal folks start having personal servers at their home, and h

The way I see it, there's 2 main hurdles for truly free internet: hardware and encryption. When normal folks start having personal servers at their home, and have all their traffic and data fully encrypted on their personal server which is in their turf, they will have the freedom to act as they like. The problem with these two hurdles is infrastructure (being ISP dependent) and regulation (Government can make up rules for personal servers) - if we can get past those, oh my it will be wonderful. But I don't think it will be possible until someone forms a "Digital Country" - a territory with 'open source' government with some sort of 'digital rights constitution' that would allow the above to really happen.