[JediLuke]

Right now congress is debating how to spend 1 trillion in infrastructure, and I feel that most of it will go to pointlessly laying more concrete across the continent. I would like to see some kind of secure citizen-network, separate from the internet, restricted in functionality to just basic services, a business directory, and a message board that requires a crypto cert to identify yourself so you can make a post/comment. Solve the misinformation problem, the cybersecurity problem, train a generation in tech, kickstart the local supply chain AND stimulate economy all at once!

[rtpg]

Functioning roads and bridges that don't have cracked load-bearing beams are a bit higher priority than a BBS and digital yellow pages.

[rtkwe]

I doubt that will solve misinformation people are happy to spread complete nonsense under their real names on Facebook all the time. Plus if it's run by the government basic things like moderation get tricky due to 1A.

[whatshisface]

Why would anyone use the Governet, when the Internet is so much better?

[visualradio]

How would cryptographically verified identities solve the misinformation problem?

Conservative elites which believe it is necessary to fabricate some external evil to preserve social order are historically willing to engage in obscurantism and spread lies under their real names.

The monopolization of farm land by domestic land lords is fault of foreign powers for not allowing enough living room, attempts to end feudalism in south america are Russian plots to establish Stalinist regimes on southern border of United States, UFOs are not domestic military projects but nefarious extraterrestrials, Soviet Union is not collapsing but actually developing undetectable super weapons, Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, etc.