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I want a second, locked-down internet/web that coexists with the current internet. The type of controls: - A decentralized group of "meatspace" businesses provide notarization. To get an "account" to use the network and its websites, it is mandatory that a person provide government ID. Users can allow a notary to make arbitrary types of information about themselves public (eg: prove they once had cancer,prove they travelled to Cuba, prove they have a high-school diploma, etc). "Private" info is still available to law-enforcement. This makes users more accountable, both for breaking laws, and for (to use the phrase loosely) stolen valour. It might be useful, in addition, if users needed to provide some deposit as collateral in case they abuse notarization. - The web piece of the network uses a protocol with no page- or site-provided style sheets. A developer can create a style-sheet, but the user chooses styles per-browser (eg: the same style-sheet for all websites they view). This makes for a dull, but usable, web-browsing experience. No font-sizes changing, articles laid out the same everywhere, widgets work the same everywhere. - The web piece of the network uses a protocol with no page- or site-provided dynamic features (ie: no scripting). Any dynamic features (eg: a login box, or an upload status bar, etc etc etc) need to be standards. The group responsible for this new web protocol can always treat the old web as a playground from which to steal ideas. This makes shady advertising, and many types of hacking, impossible. |