At the end of the day, it's all about the tyranny of the middlebox. Let's say you get banned (somehow) by backbone, but you have one other middlebox willing to

At the end of the day, it's all about the tyranny of the middlebox. Let's say you get banned (somehow) by backbone, but you have one other middlebox willing to proxy you. You're still visible! You're just behind that middlebox's routing. In fact, if you enplace yourself within an AS as an Authoritative DNS provider, suddenly, you da boss. I can make (from my network's point of view) facebook.com resolve anywhere I want for requests coming from within it. Now. If I had a channel to receive updates on the address of a service the big guys were trying to crush, say, TPB, my resplver can be updated to resolve that without honoring upstream. This was actually how DNS started. It was just lists of host names to IP's/ARPANet addresses. The challenge is always figuring out how to distribute notice of the changes.