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Not really sure what this is... found it on tpb today. Sounds interesting anyway and I found the Obama/Osama comparison eerily accurate. Any thoughts on the topic?

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THE INTERNET IS NOT FREE
an important message

FROM: The Internet Revolution Task Force (IRTF)

TO: All Internet users

CORE MESSAGE:

The Internet is not free. The Internet is not safe. Immediate action required.

-- I repeat --

THE INTERNET IS NOT FREE.

THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED.

-- Details and rationale --

Consider this. What if a part of the Internet went down? Let's say that all US
Internet servers suddenly become unreachable.

Think that's impossible or unlikely? Think again.

The American devil (Obama) has announced his plans for a "kill switch": a switch
in his hands that would allow him to take down the complete (!) US Internet
whenever he chooses to.

If he presses that button, would you still be able to use the Internet the way
you do now? Do you know where the servers that you use for browsing, mailing,
chatting are located?

Let me remind you that Google is an American company. Twitter. Facebook.
Microsoft.

To reiterate: The Internet, in its current state, is not safe from policitians
(i.e. madmen).

What can and what should be done?

The Internet needs to be restructured. Every service that currently relies on
America in some kind has to be replaced with an America-independent one.

Also, while you're at it, you could reduce or eliminate your dependency on
SERVERS in general. Servers, even when located outside of America, are a
problem. They cost money. They are subject to government interference. They are
not safe. They are controlled by corporate entities which are un-trustworthy
entities.

The solution lies in server-less networks (peer-to-peer networks). Some good
peer-to-peer networks already exist, but they only provide a limited number of
services.

Today, you can share files over peer-to-peer networks. But you can't read and
write your mail over such a network. You can't really browse for news over such
a network. For these functions, you still have to rely on servers.

Thats should be changed, as soon as possible. It will take the Internet to the
next level: truly resilient, truly controlled by the people (i.e. EVERYONE) and,
finally, truly safe.

*

When the move away from servers is well underway, the next thing to look at will
be the Internet's physical infrastructure. This infrastructure is also
corporate-controlled. Using the Internet is usually cheap, but not free.

Also, the corporate infrastructure is vulnerable, for example, in the case of an
economic breakdown. (Think that's impossible? Study some history.)

Thus, everyone who uses the Internet should contribute to bulding a new,
non-commercial physical infrastructure for it.

Set up local wireless networks. Connect these networks to each other. Share
connections. Build a scalable, resilient ad-hoc network using local resources
(everyone's routers).

This, of course, is also an engineering tasks. Thankfully, the Internet hosts
millions of skilled engineers. :)

*

All of this might not look like a problem to you today. Yet you will soon begin
to notice that a problem indeed exists, and it is growing.

The primary problem lives in a white house, smiles while it kills scores of
innocents and likes to be called "Mr. Obama". (Or was it "Osama"? Oh well.
They're kind of all the same, aren't they. Osama seems to be a tad more on the
good side though. And he doesn't lie as much as that Obama guy.)

Alright. Enough for today. Spread the message. Join the revolution. Get to work!

-The Internet Revolution Task Force
(July 2010)

so called devil go ahead!

no, and thank fuck for that.

off to china then!

Oh, the yankees would be mad and the rest of us would have a party.

Seriously, losing internets would do me good. I'd write a lot more code instead of reading posts like that.

So pretty much all buy an OLPC and go hang out @ McDonalds then?

did you make that up? :)

Well, get this: his middle name is Hussein. And 'Barack' sounds a bit like Iraq. ZOMG!!!!!!1

...anyway, I think the solution for this would be for someone like Cisco to develop some kind of hardware that would find the appropriate 'route' for internet traffic, 'routing' around any parts of the internet which were down. I don't know what you'd call it though.

Its all stored in the cloud, so don't fear!

Apparently he is also black & a male which surely marks him as a criminal & a terrorist.

gasman, isn't that how the internet works? if one hub is down the communication will flow over other channels.

i love it when a bunch of teenagers with irc skills call themselves a "task force". it alone shows such a lack of understanding of how the world works that it's just silly.

rasmus, gasman made a joke, and you ruined it :)

tor network?

one could always use freenet, if all fails... you have web, mail, chat etx there, all peer-2-peer and anonymous.. -> check at wikipedia

omg, the internet, a man-made communication network created by government funded military and commercial/government funded research IS NOT FREE!!

Somebody has finally admitted their desire to control its function...OMFG!!!

OMFG!!! OMG...DOUBLE RAINDOWS IN THE MOTHERFUCKING SKYS!!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN....HOW DOES IT WORK!?!?!

The thing is, if President Obama *does* go loopy one day and presses the kill-the-entire-US-internet-infrastructure button, we're probably going to be more concerned about the crazy man in charge of half the planet than the fact that we can't get to Facebook.

they're not called the American military for no reason, and they didn't create the internet for Facebook or even our convenience :) despite their fucked-up economy, i guess they still may have some bargaining chips with teh intrawebs. pretty slick if you ask me.

We need the darknets.

DARKNETTTTSSS

I'm with the gasman :) It's far more likely that a republican would be a threat to free information exchange but either way, losing major US sites would be no loss at all. :)