[charlieok]

Why "completely separate"?

The internet is a patchwork of networks. Why not just add more networks to that patchwork.

Adding more networks to the internet, with more links between them, managed by a greater diversity of organizations and individuals, is what will make the internet harder for anybody to control.

It's been said that "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it". What's needed, I think, is more available routes.