The End of the Internet Dream
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The End of the Internet Dream
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#2Url changed from http://boingboing.net/2015/08/18/the-end-of-the-internet-dre..., which points to this, which is technically a dupe (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20End%20of%20the%20Interne...) but didn't have much discussion.
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#3Are there any solutions? Is it possible to create a new network? How do you champion free speech and then try to control the ugly side?
I'd love to read more I guess.
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#4I think Snowden's disclosures were a loss of innocence for many technologists, and this reflects that. I can't imagine this would have been written in his absence.
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#5Are there any solutions? Is it possible to create a new network? How do you champion free speech and then try to control the ugly side? I'd love to read more I guess.
Use fewer networked applications :)
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#6Great talk. I just posted the link to people who follow me on T and G+
As sosuke mentions in another comment, possible alternative mesh networks might regain some freedom and flexibility but we will all be vulnerable to embedded IoT technology that tracks us and because of laws prohibiting looking at embedded code (assuming this happens) it will be difficult for white hat privacy advocates to check the information shared out by these devices. Cars, home appliances, electronic gadgets - a lot of areas that might leak privacy.
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#7Are there any solutions? Is it possible to create a new network? How do you champion free speech and then try to control the ugly side? I'd love to read more I guess.
Encrypting everything -- HTTP traffic, email, streaming media -- is a good start.
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#8The Internet Dream is sadly not compatibile with profit-driven world. We had some good times back when it all begun, because then nobody besides techies cared. Now that the Internet is a money making machine, there are tons of incentives to make it worse and little to make it better.
In order to keep the corruption away, or maybe even limit it, all of us and our coworkers would have to start risking their livelihoods by torpedoing the insane ideas our managers and bosses have. I tried, and it's hard, and unless it's a collective action your boss won't listen to a lone techie telling him that this business idea of his is actually socially destructive and is abusing the users.
And that even doesn't begin to solve the problems of techies who went over to the dark side, who have both the profit-at-all-costs mindset and skills to pull it off.
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#9I think Snowden's disclosures were a loss of innocence for many technologists, and this reflects that. I can't imagine this would have been written in his absence.
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#10Are there any solutions? Is it possible to create a new network? How do you champion free speech and then try to control the ugly side? I'd love to read more I guess.
Encrypting everything -- HTTP traffic, email, streaming media -- is a good start.
We need to compensate that with having accessible endpoints - otherwise it means that things like[0] won't be possible. Security can be one of the most effective enemies of the Freedom to Tinker.