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To: Louis Foxwell

What most consider “the Internet” isn’t the totality thereof, it’s only the “tip of the iceberg” publicly visible, mapped by Google & friends, and known to most because any point thereof is conveniently accessible from any other point thereof.

There is “the Dark Web”, sites & systems that opt to operate outside Google et al’s publicity, avoiding official & gov’t visibility. Some contend that this data space is significantly larger than “the [public] Internet”.

Censor enough, and the Right may very well create their own “alt-Web”. Really isn’t hard to create “alt-DNS registries”, mapping website names to the underlying (and politically neutral) IP addresses hugely available. It’s also entirely possible to “hide in plain sight” websites etc that use TOR, VPN, Torrent, and other technologies to resist censorship. We can even go so far as to start physically independent networks, cheaply creating “ad-hoc networking” which [ab]uses existing systems and creates new censorship-resisting data paths.

Upshot: there’s an old aphorism that “the internet views censorship as damage, and simply routes around it.” We can do that.

Interesting how the Left used to wave the banner of “end censorship!” yet now it’s the Left doing the censoring and the Right routing around it.


11 posted on 11/10/2017 12:56:50 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2

Yes, an electronic Samizdat is what’s called for.


15 posted on 11/11/2017 9:11:52 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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