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Originally Posted by jnwi View Post
I prefer math. They've just found a very inefficient local maximum




Sure, but you'd need so many people agreeing with you that things would never have gotten so bad in the first place. Infrastructure is expensive, and I'm assuming there wouldn't be any line sharing in this future.
As with anything, it would start small. I never said it would be easy or straight forward, but the bottom line is, it would exist. Hell, pirate networks and separate internets already exist on the globe. It's nothing for a group of people to start running wire and getting people on board to join the new "Free Net" or whatever if such censorship occurred. Hell, they've already got phone plans where anyone on the plan can call someone else for free, or things like magic jack which kind of sort of puts you on a different network than normal phone users.

Again, tihs is all just fun speculation, but at the end of the day, if I connect two machines to each other via a wire and talk, no one can censor it. It's just a matter of starting it over and telling the big companies to go f themselves.

Plus, I GUARANTEE the day ISP's start trying to charge or cut you off because you are doing something they don't agree with, people will drop and go to other means.

Luckily ISP's are almost literally a dime a dozen. Comcast tried to do the whole "We're monitoring you!" b.s. and people drop from the and go to Insight, Windstream and others quite regularly. Free market in effect.
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