The ultimate expression of Digital Westphalia is the Splinternet: the fragmentation of the global internet into national or regional networks governed by territorial sovereigns. What began as a unified global communication system is crystallizing into incompatible digital realms where access, content, and functionality depend on geography rather than technology.
I've been spending the last couple of hours planning a simple demo cjdns docker deployment (per discussion with @jbschirtzinger yesterday in #1074515), to demonstrate that you don't need to launch a token to have state-resistant networking.
These arbitrary lines drawn on maps are at most an obstacle between you and I.
Exactly! I'm waiting for the day that the total Sybil infiltration of tor stops surveiling and starts censoring. To my memory we had a discussion that similar infiltration has happened on i2p - but can't seem to find it <sad_face>
When I'm done with this investigation, I'd like to look into segregating a network or active de-peering to do friend-of-friend connectivity again rather than DNS seeded discovery, just in case.
I understood the German BND was in the lead there at the moment and runs half the network, but regardless: if the protectionist curve continues upwards, things that defeat common sense / strategic thinking can happen in a blink. So it would be dumb, but I don't think it's impossible... that's a gut feeling though, so we'll see.
cjdnsdocker deployment (per discussion with @jbschirtzinger yesterday in #1074515), to demonstrate that you don't need to launch a token to have state-resistant networking.<sad_face>