Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake

snydeq writes "With so many threats to a free and open Internet, sooner or later, people will need to arm themselves for the fight, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. 'If the baboons succeed in constraining speech and information flow on the broader Internet, the new Internet will emerge quickly. For an analogy, consider the iPhone and the efforts of a few smart hackers who have allowed anyone to jailbreak an iPhone with only a small downloaded app and a few minutes,' Venezia writes. 'All that scenario would require would be a way to wrap up existing technologies into a nice, easily-installed package available through any number of methods. Picture the harrowing future of rampant Internet take-downs and censorship, and then picture a single installer that runs under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that installs tor, tools to leverage alternative DNS servers, anonymizing proxies, and even private VPN services. A few clicks of the mouse, and suddenly that machine would be able to access sites "banned" through general means.'"

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it's not about connectivity, it's about accessibil

[mapkinase]

it's not about connectivity, it's about accessibility: presence in the search results, being properly indexed.

There could be million free pages under any super-free Internet. What's the point of it if nothing could be found?

Main battle is going to be around google search results and there have been several front pages on that: content providers are already fighting with google.

If a movie is getting NC-17 rating, forget about profit (in this case most rightfully so, that's Islam speaking).

If a website is accessible only via Tor, forget about business.

Imagine isntead of banning megaupload website were still accessible through Tor or some other kind of superfreeandsecretnet. Do you really think Dotcom would be leaving in 22M mansion?

Re:it's not about connectivity, it's about accessi

[GameboyRMH]

As a darknet I2P is clearly superior to Tor, both in speed and security - Tor still relies on trusted directory servers while I2P is fully distributed and requires no trusted servers of any kind. Tor is better as an anonymizing proxy.