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[marcus_holmes]

Do you want political control over key internet infrastructure? Because that's how you get political control over key internet infrastructure...

[sofixa → marcus_holmes]

There is already implicit political control. If the US wants to ban X, or forbid encryption, it will impact almost everyone on the planet. Much less so if it were Afghanistan, of course.

The EU has a funs that donates money and runs bug bounty programs for critical FOSS software it uses. It should be expanded to include more underlying libraries and lower-level projects, but it's a pretty good start and doesn't come with strings attached.

[rolandog → sofixa]

The EU sounds like a great approach; do you know if and how often they re-evaluate the impact and level of their dependencies?

[marcus_holmes → sofixa]

> doesn't come with strings attached.

yet

[dredmorbius → marcus_holmes]

What we have now is corporate control, often with covert government influence, and benign-to-malicious neglect.

I'm willing to risk public support in at least part.