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I love the political and ethical debate surrounding this, both in this thread and elsewhere. As a technologist and a software developer I think we should use ev

I love the political and ethical debate surrounding this, both in this thread and elsewhere. As a technologist and a software developer I think we should use every means available to stop these sorts of laws from taking effect and harming what should be a completely neutral internet. With that being said, I would like to ask from a technical perspective, what can we do if this does go into effect? I remember a quote, I want to say it was by Sit Timothy Berners-Lee, but I can't find it. So I will just state it myself. Any lack of neutrality within the internet network is not a feature or a regulation but is in fact a bug within the system. When a bug is found, software engineers find ways around those bugs. So, if ISPs finally succeed in causing our internet to no longer be neutral, how will we be moving around that bug?

wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>So, if ISPs finally succeed in causing our internet to no longer be neutral, how will we be moving around that bug? It wouldnt be easy, but mesh networks are the best option I'm aware of.
- frabcus 10y ago
  The protocol cjdns and its distributed deployment at Hyperboria is the largest scale starting point I'm aware of. I think doing this might have advantages increasing freedom at the other end of the stack too - if you can drop out to cheap Internet on a mesh network with local traffic free, you might find the advantage of having a Nextcloud Box in your house (instead of Dropbox) clearer.