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Nope. You still rent bandwidth from your ISP. If you're doing something they don't like, they can and will shut you down. Whether we like it or not, everything
by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Nope. You still rent bandwidth from your ISP. If you're doing something they don't like, they can and will shut you down. Whether we like it or not, everything on the internet exists at the whim of one company or another.
- narrowrail 11y agoWhile I will buy this argument with regard to the web, the internet also includes bitorrent, which is quit a bit more difficult to censor (e.g. the celeb nude photos from the icloud leak).
- wpietri 11y agoHaving run my own servers for almost 20 years, I think you're orders of magnitude safer with your own box collocated with some ISP. Commercial ISPs have very few fucks to give for people who are upset about content. Other than spam, network abuse, and crime, which are direct threats to their business, or properly filed DCMA notices, which incur legal liability, I just don't see any concern. In fact, I see a studious and practice avoidance of interest. Large ISPs just aren't very whimsical. For the really paranoid, you can get yourself bandwidth from multiple providers; then you're only worried about synchronized whimsy. Which, I suppose is definitionally not whim at all.