[ec429]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: _the US cannot be trusted with stewardship of the global Internet_.

Wired suggests that some want to move this stewardship to the UN. This is not a solution.

A still more decentralised approach is needed; if the Internet is to truly "treat censorship as damage, and route around it", no core Internet protocol can afford to have any kind of "root server", "switch board" or "root certification authority".

There are plenty of good hackers here, perhaps more importantly there are people here who can build communities; rather than trying to invent the "next facebook", I hope you will divert some of your attention to making a pervasively distributed Internet both (a) technically feasible and (b) desired by the Man In The Street.

[andrewflnr]

This, a thousand times over. I don't know why more people aren't saying it. We've got to build a better decentralized Internet.

[waqf]

Better, meaning better than Tor? Better than I2P?

I think we've got to get people to start using the decentralized internet we have.

[ec429]

Yes: that's exactly my point (b).