Sick of stewing in Hulk-like yet impotent rage and crushing fear for society after the death of net neutrality? I am.
This is me. Just in case we're not clear.
Want a brand-new Internet complete with the freedom that Verizon killed but even better? I do. And so do the developers of Bitcloud.
According to BBC, the minds behind Bitcoin are aiming to use those same methods to provide services that are for the moment controlled by ISPs (Internet Service Providers) who—in case you forgot from two sentences ago—can now brand and package the Internet like TV channels thanks to the death of net neutrality .
Like myself, Bitcloud is emphatically not down with ISPs being greedy, censor-loving moneygrubbers—which is why they’re proposing that, as with Bitcoin, individuals take over the Internet trade as opposed to corporations. These individuals would provide storing, routing and bandwidth in exchange for payment, without moaning that the sites you’re visiting don’t fall in line with corporate preferences and are therefore banned forever no returns no substitutions.
Alternative to net neutrality? Instantly supported
Sounds a lot like Internet use before Verizon murdered personal cyber-freedom. Only it’s better, because this time you don’t have to deal with ISPs at all—the Internet would be completely decentralized. Individual net users contributing bandwidth would gain rewards such as Bitcoins, or the network’s proposed currency Cloudcoins, in proportion to the amount of bandwidth they’d given.
Furthermore, Bitcloud is also toying with the idea of ‘WeTube,’ a decentralized replacement for Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Soundcloud, and Spotify (just to throw out a few) on the new Internet. Unlike similar sites today, WeTube contributing artists would be paid a percentage of WeTube’s advertising revenue, something that’s frankly fantastic.
The Bitcloud team admits that the project is still in its beginning stages, and is still searching for developers and programmers to contribute—from “thinkers from around the world who want to help.”
“If you're interested in privacy, security, ending internet censorship, decentralising the internet and creating a new mesh network to replace the internet, then you should join or support this project,” said the team in a statement on BBC.
As only a lover of history can, I loathe censorship of nearly any kind, so the fact that somebody’s working on an alternative to net neutrality, where I won’t have to pay an extra fee just to get onto websites I choose even if the money bloated CEO of Verizon hates them, is beautiful.
At least it’s some hope to have if we can’t get the FCC back in court fighting to convince DC that removing the personal freedoms and choices of your citizens is grossly unconstitutional, not to mention morally and ethically repugnant, no matter how much money it makes you.
Source BBC
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