>we also a stronger protections for private entities being strong-armed by state actors. It's important to note that this also needs (though I suspect that it

>we also a stronger protections for private entities being strong-armed by state actors. It's important to note that this also needs (though I suspect that it already does) to apply to hosting providers and ISPs. (We need one for banks and payment processors, too, but one step at a time.) The whole "just make your own Internet" will ultimately be the death of free thought; in some respects, this has already happened. Cloudflare in particular makes a bundle on flat out illegal content; forcing them to moderate everything or just accept everyone's business (and ensuring ISPs can't blackhole routing requests) would likely be an improvement, and not one the enemy can as easily influence (as there's no viable "our payment processors said so" excuse). Of course, then the enemy will just amp up their efforts through the banks or the app stores, but one less avenue of attack they have is always better.