Comment A Brave New Internet (Score 1) 360
Imagine an Internet with all the regulations that people want to put onto it. Wouldn't that be terrible?
This overbearing internet would surely be less useful than its worth.
So, what happens when the internet becomes this way?
I'd a say a new Internet would be created, different protocols, goverened by different people, taking into account all the best possible technologies and regulations.
"Well isn't this the Internet 2?" No, the internet 2 already has corporate sponsors and will eventually (despite the fact that it isn't supposed to) become just as regulated and slow as the current one.
Thats when an "underground" internet gets started: running on a different protocol, where small groups of people start to provide access to others.
This "underground" internet harkens to the /. articles that have been posted recently about "private" and "small" BBS's of days gone by.
Unfortunately, who is to say that this new internet will not fall to the same fate as the current? Nothing, and unfortunatly, I must concede that human nature strives to be greedy and regulate. But under the right hands, with good legislation from the start (perhaps some sort of viral type rule, like the GPL that forbids certain types of legislation) it could become a better, bolder, more free internet.
This overbearing internet would surely be less useful than its worth.
So, what happens when the internet becomes this way?
I'd a say a new Internet would be created, different protocols, goverened by different people, taking into account all the best possible technologies and regulations.
"Well isn't this the Internet 2?" No, the internet 2 already has corporate sponsors and will eventually (despite the fact that it isn't supposed to) become just as regulated and slow as the current one.
Thats when an "underground" internet gets started: running on a different protocol, where small groups of people start to provide access to others.
This "underground" internet harkens to the
Unfortunately, who is to say that this new internet will not fall to the same fate as the current? Nothing, and unfortunatly, I must concede that human nature strives to be greedy and regulate. But under the right hands, with good legislation from the start (perhaps some sort of viral type rule, like the GPL that forbids certain types of legislation) it could become a better, bolder, more free internet.
