Internet Freedom

I’ve been thinking (for the last 10minutes) about the next step for the Internet. A free internet. Not the web. The actual network that the web and other tech runs on, the internet.

Right now we’re dependent on government or corporation provided/regulated infrastructure in terms of routing of wired networks or cell networks for mobile.

I’m sure there are emerging alternatives that I don’t know of and started this post to ask this awesome #nostr community to share their knowledge and educate me please.

How do we see the future of decentralized internet infrastructure?

Some things I thought briefly of:

(1) a WiFi-based infra that connects us p2p and doesn’t need to go through censored terrestrial infra (for the most part). Problems are that although wifi is getting fast, it’s nowhere near fiber speeds and it has a huge reach/range problem - we’d need big and uniform adoption.

(2) satellite.. what’s the situation now? Latency is worse, but throughout is fine IIRC. We can set up dishes but we can’t send up our own satellites so it seems infeasible as a medium.

(3) private cell networks (5G etc). Although maybe possible, somehow the government is allowed to police the airwaves and frequencies used, and it’s easy to pinpoint a transponder.

???

So I don’t really know of what physical tech could be the answer to centralized internet infra.

Any ideas?

TOR and VPNs are some ways we try to logically communicate freely in plain sight but they too are limited and ultimately subject to the infra in some way

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