> There's nothing stopping these maniacs from starting their own intermediaries The Internet is commercial, top to bottom. The same kind of public sentiment (o

> There's nothing stopping these maniacs from starting their own intermediaries The Internet is commercial, top to bottom. The same kind of public sentiment (or if you lack the appropriate sentiment, outraged news) would prevent anyone from agreeing to be their DNS registrar or their VPN host. Should they start their own ISP, who will agree to peering with them? Should they bypass DNS and have a well-known static IP, will other networks agree to route traffic to that IP?