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I don't want governments to have this level of control over the internet. It seems like you are paving over a technological problem with the way the internet is
by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't want governments to have this level of control over the internet. It seems like you are paving over a technological problem with the way the internet is designed by giving some institution a ton of power over the internet.
- marginalia_nu 11mo agoThe alternative to governments stopping misbehavior is every website hiding behind Cloudflare or a small number of competitors, which is a situation that is far more susceptible to abuse than having a law that says you can't DDoS people even if you live in Singapore. It really can not be overstated how unsustainable the status quo is.
- beeflet 11mo agoI think the alternative is to recreate the internet with more p2p friendly infrastructure. BitTorrent does not have this same DDoS problem. Mesh networks are designed with sybil resistance in mind
- marginalia_nu 11mo agoThe internet already is p2p infrastructure. BitTorrent is just as susceptible to this, it's just there's currently no economic incentive to try to exhaustively scrape it from 50,000 VPS nodes.
- beeflet 11mo ago>The internet already is p2p infrastructure. No, it really isn't. Unless you mean like on the BGP level. But it's p2p in the sense where you have to trust every party not to break the system. It's like email or mastodon, it doesn't solve the fundamental sybil problem at hand. >BitTorrent is just as susceptible to this, In bittorrent things are hosted by adhoc users are that are roughly proportional to the number of downloaders. It is not unimaginable that you could staple a reputation system on top of it like PTs already do.