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Wouldn't ISPs just block or throttle all Tor traffic (like they did with bittorrent back before net neutrality regulations were in place).
by giaour 9y ago
Wouldn't ISPs just block or throttle all Tor traffic (like they did with bittorrent back before net neutrality regulations were in place).
- dsnuh 9y agoI mean, that's my guess. Just trying to interpret GP.
- ianai 9y agoI’m thinking something like the onion plus a conglomerate fee for first class citizen level prioritization.
- callesgg 9y agoum
- kakarot 9y agoI have no idea what you are talking about. What do you think "the onion" is?
- dsnuh 9y agoMaybe GP is saying Tor could monetize to provide private access? Which, correct me if I am wrong, is a feature Tor doesn't even provide? I'm pretty lost too.
- ianai 9y agoClearly I’m not the guy to talk to about tor/onion. I’m wondering if a network could be set up across thousands of homes somehow and that network could purchase priority of its traffic. Basically there’s always a way to add another layer of abstraction to circumvent a lower layers restrictions.
- tpxl 9y agoYes, a mesh network would work for that, then you just need a method to measure how much traffic each node serves then pay the node operators for that.
- ianai 9y agoIs anybody working on that?
- tpxl 9y agoI know there were mesh networks with wireless microwave transmitters deployed in some rural areas, but I can't find the articles. It's probably going to get more and more attention though, along with distributed electricity and similar things as technology progresses.