Berners-Lee lost me when he supported EME. Basically, I view that as a coordinated infrastructure (the political component) that allows for a "universal" technological lockdown (the engineering component -- weaponized by the political coordination and corresponding universal dissemination).
In other words, you will never save the Internet from authoritarian bozos, when they hold the keys -- that you manufactured for them.
You want to talk about saving the Internet? You have to own the physical layer -- keep it open. The rest is filtering.
Now, to RTFA, I suppose.
Oh, another example of what I'm saying: The Great Firewall of China was prototyped and initially built using Western technology and expertise. That bootstrapped them; it "gave them the keys".
The Chinese authorities have understood very well and increasingly effectively use this: Control of the physical layer.
And, they're exporting turnkey systems for this.
Maybe that's what "saving the Internet" looks like, for some people. The censored Internet. The one that tells you what's ok to build and to say -- that sooner or later butts up against innovation, dynamism, needed change and progress.
In other words, you will never save the Internet from authoritarian bozos, when they hold the keys -- that you manufactured for them.
You want to talk about saving the Internet? You have to own the physical layer -- keep it open. The rest is filtering.
Now, to RTFA, I suppose.
Oh, another example of what I'm saying: The Great Firewall of China was prototyped and initially built using Western technology and expertise. That bootstrapped them; it "gave them the keys".
The Chinese authorities have understood very well and increasingly effectively use this: Control of the physical layer.
And, they're exporting turnkey systems for this.
Maybe that's what "saving the Internet" looks like, for some people. The censored Internet. The one that tells you what's ok to build and to say -- that sooner or later butts up against innovation, dynamism, needed change and progress.