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Are you ready for the day the internet splits? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 17 hours ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Are you prepared for the day the #internet splits?

On the clearnet you will be

Unable to watch porn.
Required to give your real name and ID in order to use social media.
Arrested for "mean tweets", "anti-government views", "liking subversive memes", etc
Only be allowed to use approved applications from Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc

On #Tor and #I2P you can still be free.

What you can do to prepare

Set your downlink speed to 10-15mbps to acclimatize yourself
Encourage app developers to host their applications on Onion and Eepsite domains. (Git repos, fdroid repos, linux distro repos, etc)
Run all applications that support SOCKS5 over the Tor SOCKS port (9050) (#Fdroid, #Signal, #SimpleX, #AntennaPod, etc)
Use bookmarks or password manager notes to have the URLs of your commonly used programs, services, and repos (#Monero, #XMRBazaar, #Pitch, #Dread, etc.)
Get used to text messages instead of audio or video calls. (Audio and video use UDP and generally give your real IP to either a central STUN server or the other peer. (it may be possible to force audio and video calls over TCP exclusively, but the latency would be high and therefore make the call unenjoyable.)

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Good guide. Its 100% coming to this in 10 years. Or less. We will all be "criminals".

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago

The same people selling the clearnet will be the same people who will never let the existing stuff die, so they can sell the problems, the "solutions", child-porn, and most stupidly, considering they seem to honestly believe they want to force this on the rest of us, to feel they are "above the law", and not confined to the bounds of their own machinations.

I'm not convinced more than maybe 5 or 10% of people will ever actually use the clear-net, or even be able to afford to either. The same idiots trying to force it are population their new "walled-garden for the rest of them" with, basically, AI spoofs of the rest of the population. They are already huffing their own farts the the point they won't be able to tell the difference, like an artificial resurgence of The Bicameral Mind for "the ruling class".