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If bots take the "internet down", alternatives?
My only thought was: perhaps many, many overly redundant internets that are "Great Firewalled" from one another—serving small (municipal?) communities rather than the world at large. Data transfers between the internets for syncing (Instagram, Wikipedia, whoever) are done in a secure manner inaccessible to bots.
Sure, I see limitations in the above. Others can no doubt poke plenty of holes in it as well. But curious to see a discussion about this.
(Or do we go back to email only, ha ha—as though email is some kind of unadulterated haven.)
- JohnFen 19d agoThis is already happening. There are at least three "private internets" that I'm aware of in my city. They don't (generally) interface with the larger public internet, though, aside from using it as a pipe when other communications methods are too costly. Providing too much of an interface with the public internet would eliminate a lot of the benefit of doing this.
- negura 18d ago> many, many overly redundant internets that are "Great Firewalled" from one another This actually has name, "the dark forest theory of the internet". I've personally reverted back to many offline/analog sources of information and community participation.