[stareatgoats]

Thanks, I think we need to discuss this too. I don't believe we can wish the internet away, but we're still in internet infancy, the "wild west" of plugged in, always online, life. Regulators need to catch up, but at the moment they seem to miss the point, mainly trying to cash in and serve their own narrow interests.

We likely need a movement that promotes a healthier use of the tech, which could include things like making it socially unacceptable to be constantly hooked up to your phone, and hefty fines for the manufacturers whenever their hardware/software made clandestine surveillance possible.

If things like these are not technically or socially possible, then I'm guessing we'll see an "anti-internet" movement eventually, too.

[stareatgoats]

Actually, such local "internet in the box" as per the linked article might prove to be a basis for one such "anti-internet" solution: detach from the internet as a whole and enable local communication, resources and traffic only.

Every prepper should really have one!

[jasonjayr]

What's old is new again: if everyone has their own isolated network, then if you need message exchange, you can light up FIDO or UUCP!