[armchairhacker]

We have a “new internet”. We have the indie web, VPNs, websites not behind Cloudflare, other browsers. You won’t have a large audience, but a new protocol won't fix that.

Also, plenty of small and medium businesses are doing fine on the internet. You only hear about ones with problems like this. And if these problems become more frequent and public, Google will put more effort into fixing them.

I think the most practical thing we can do is support people and companies who fall through the cracks, by giving them information to understand their situation and recover, and by promoting them.

[AtlasBarfed]

"Google will put more effort into fixing them"

Why would they do that? Do they lose money from these people? Why would they care? they're a monopoly they don't need to care

[bloomingeek]

Perhaps we need a different "type" of internet. I don't have the expertise to even explain what this would look like, but I know that if politics, religion, junk science and a hundred other influences have anything to do with it, it will eventually become too stupid to use.

[StilesCrisis]

Making a "smart person only" Internet is a social problem, not a technology problem.

[g3f32r]

We had a "smart person only internet". Then it became financially prudent to make it an "everyone internet", then we had the dot com boom, Apple, Google, etc bloom from that.

We _still_ have a "smart person only internet" really, it's just now used mostly for drug and weapon sales ( Tor )

[AtlasBarfed]

Smart people want to dominate the stupids.

For some group of smart people, there will be a group of smarter people who want to dominate the The people they designate "the stupids".

The internet was a technological solution to a social problem. It introduced other social problems, although arguably these to your point are old social problems in a new arena.

But there may be yet another technological solution to the old social problems of monopolism, despotic centralized control, and fraud.

.... I did say "may".

[oneshtein]

Everybody wants to dominate others using their strongest ability: smart, rich, strong, popular, fast, etc.