About the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Digital Services Act in Europe
I’ve already said goodbye to “the internet” 3 times. Social media destroyed web 2.0, which destroyed the original web, which destroyed the original Usenet and telnet internet.
i’m looking forward to the more decentralized internet that’s brewing up here.
The web is still heavily centralized.
It’s also much bigger than it was back in the day.
Even a fraction of a percent of people using decentralized services is probably bigger than the early web ever was.
it is. it won’t change overnight though.
Let start from root of problem. Network with name internet entirely centralized and controlled by specific companies and people.
If someone has a suggestion/link on how a decentralized web grows past DNS I’m all ears.
Something like Lemmy could form a pretty good foundation. Onion routing already has created a “parallel internet” that depends 0% on DNS, and Lemmy instances would federate today (with whitelisted federation) via /etc/hosts with no DNS involved. It wouldn’t work well, it would have problems, but if someone actually tried to make it work moderately well, the whole model of “admins running servers which it’s your problem to get connected to, and then they know how to federate to each other because all the admins talk with each other” could work itself around over time into something that actually had some pretty strong robustness to it.
There are other attempts (Holepunch, Freenet, all that jazz), but actually Tor and Fedi things probably have the best claims to being able to turn into something realistic that didn’t need DNS, over time. You just couldn’t talk to it until you set your machine up to be able to get the initial connection going, but that’s not fatal, the whole internet used to be a lot like that way back when.
DNS can be decentralized: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/
If these types of laws keep coming there might be a lot of legal liability for running instances of things
You delete comments & have an emoji for a username. Go back to Facebook or wherever you belong. We don’t want people like you on the “better internet”
coming from a conservative media outlet instantly tanks any claim’s credibility imo
I have read maybe half, and the cringe in this piece is intense.
Imagine plauding
Musk’s commitment to maintaining free speech on X.I mean, there are problem with the DSA and there are plenty with Online Safety Act, but maybe try to SIMP for fascist Big Tech a little more discreetly?
Same shit coming to Australia
We’re so fucked and people don’t even realize that.
they finally passed it.
they will keep trying on other countries until they succeed too.
Is it possible to start a new one?
Mass migrate to IRC?
IRC doesn’t handle being disconnected. That’s why matrix has essentially replaced it
The problem is not the internet itself. If you started a new internet protocol, you’d still be controlled by the same laws
The UK populace doesn’t get nearly enough shit for all of the bullshit they have caused. They are the fucking Alabama of Europe.
You can tell by the way their teeth are 🧐
Europeanconservative, really?
It’s encouraging to see support for anti-censorship across the political spectrum
“What we are witnessing right now is the death of the free internet and the birth of a new digital dictatorship. No longer can we be trusted to decide for ourselves what content is appropriate or correct. Everything must instead be filtered through the state’s definition of ‘safety,’ telling us what is safe to say, see, or believe. Under the guise of protecting children and fighting ‘hate,’ governments are creating the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen.”
Funny how freeze peach sublimates directly into censorship vapor the moment liberals lose their cultural hegemony.
Dude you’re on the instance where it is forbidden in worldnews to say “Fuck (a particular country which will remain nameless)”.
Literally the only one. You can say “Fuck the United States” or “Fuck Israel” everywhere on Lemmy, or near enough, which of course is as it should be. But if I start stepping on the wrong massive state actors’ toes from one particular instance…
