What’s with the switching back and forth between “you” and “u”? Either one is fine but pick one and go with it.

This headline is a really roundabout way to say “kicked out”. He was kicked out of parliament.

Lumen and Verizon both have subsea cable connections to Europe. EXA Infrastructure is in the process of acquiring Aqua Comms, both of which own subsea cables. Google, MS, and Meta have all invested in subsea infrastructure to varying degrees as well. These are not monopolies in the classic sense of the word but they’re not exactly owned by benevolent interests either.

That said, the point is that a malicious government with sufficient pull, for example the current Trump administration, wouldn’t have to bully very many people to severely limit the flow of information between North America and Europe. So much of the internet depends on US infrastructure that this wouldn’t be terribly far off from censoring the entire internet. In that scenario there isn’t much that can be done about it. Europe can control their own information flow to Asia and Africa but at minimum this would be a severe disruption for a significant amount of time. Other entities might take such an opportunity to impose their own restrictions and make the situation even worse.

They do wade into the IP / transport territory a bit but those are not the 6 companies I was referring to. I was thinking of Verizon / AT&T / Lumen / Zayo / etc.

No, you’re right, the tiny hat and wall petting is totally normal. You should try it at a building in your town. I bet everyone will join in and have a great, very much not weird, time.

Except that never happens. They get millions and then go bankrupt some other company.

Your last sentence is spot on but it doesn’t capture the full weight of the impact rich people vibes have on the world. The perceived value of every stock, and by extension the economy as a whole, is almost exclusively a vibe check of rich guys. There is no objective information about a company that is more indicative of that company’s success than how rich people feel about it.

While there are interesting projects in that list, everything that I see is either only useful in a local setting, like wireless mesh networks and their derivative protocols, or assumes that no one is actively restricting what can be transmitted over the privately owned long haul fiber networks that make up the backbone of the internet. How would someone in Seattle transmit more data than can be sent via a ham radio equivalent signal to someone in New York without the use of those fiber networks?

It’s objectively weird in any context. Being into history or religion is not weird. Traveling to a certain place to view a specific piece of history is not weird. Being forced to wear a tiny hat before you can pet a stone wall associated with a religion you don’t belong to is pretty strange. Pretending that it means anything more to you for political gain is odd as well.

Perhaps you misunderstood my point in your haste to make a complicated problem seem simple but no, my argument has not changed.

No it isn’t. Either traffic is allowed to flow freely or it isn’t. Once you start down the “isn’t” path there’s not much that can be done to get around the fact that a few people control a huge chunk of the infrastructure.

Please explain how you can bypass carrier enforced traffic shaping policy.

From geti2p.net:

I2P’s protocols are efficient on most platforms, including cell phones, and secure for most threat models. However, there are several areas which require further improvement to meet the needs of those facing powerful state-sponsored adversaries, and to meet the threats of continued cryptographic advances and ever-increasing computing power.

The people involved in the project you’re referring to acknowledge that governments can, by influencing carrier policy, disrupt and subvert the project’s intended function. Why then are you implying they are incorrect?

So do a million different forms of encryption. That doesn’t make the infrastructure any less centralized. If the people who own the fiber decide to only allow pre-approved types of traffic to cross their networks then it doesn’t make any difference what sort of protocols exist. Building free cross-country or subsea fiber routes is not economically viable and the internet doesn’t exist without them.

Seems to me like the guy picked it up and dropped it through the hole in the top of the container in the moment when his body was blocking the camera from seeing what his arm was doing. Then he covered the hole with his gloved hand.

What do you mean by that? Most of the infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.

All it takes is one guy to make a big impact. Luigi woke some people up. The next one will too.

I still don’t get why this has picked up so much steam lately. All this info came out years ago and it was widely known at the time. We’ve had a de facto admission of guilt for ages but for some reason we’ve all decided to talk about it like we’re just learning about it now.

Is that functionally different in your mind? Perhaps it is slightly different if we assume they’re going to stop here and not take it any further but that seems obviously untrue so I’m not sure why the distinction matters.

What do you imagine will replace American influence if what you are asking for comes to pass?

What do you know? You’re just an AI