Two days ago, the government of Sudan shut down the Internet completely and started dicking down on its unarmed citizens for protesting. Nobody knows what's going inside because the people inside are being cut off.
What can be done to the Internet in the future to prevent governments from abusing the Internet in such way? How can a nation be able to use the Internet to protect itself, instead of having it shut down by the government as soon as they want to commit a genocide?
Surely, the Internet infrastructure will evolve to not have things like this happening?
>nigs genociding each other like the barbarian nigs they are
Nobody gives a shit. Don't worry they breed like rabbits anyway a genocide once in a while is healthy pest control.
David Hughes
I’ll bet $20000000000000 dollars that the United States government is involved someway, somehow.
Jordan Bell
What can we do to protect the internet?
Connor Peterson
cia has a hand in literally every major conflict on earth in the past 60 years
Daniel Nelson
>the secret agency of the most powerful country on the planet is involved in world wide conflicts
we got a genius over here, next you're going to tell me the british empire was involved in all the major conflicts in the 18th century
Tyler Sanders
Well, they can't stop starlink assuming anyone can just like connect to the satellites with wifi or some other device that can be stored entirely in one's house, but that assumes the US doesn't give a shit about whatever country cut off the internet. Unless of course starlink is not just an ISP but turns itself into one gigantic VPN with exit nodes in multiple countries, or something like that. But it probably isn't. I don't really have a complete picture of how that thing works. Also it's sudan, so the protestors are probably assholes anyway. The fact that they're unarmed shouldn't be a reason for you to feel sorry for them, but rather a reason to get armed so this doesn't happen to you.
Camden White
I'm pretty sure I saw sudanon posting on Jow Forums yesterday, though I'm not sure it's actually him since I haven't seen him in the last few months
Cameron Garcia
lmao who fucking cares? Its Africa.
Jace Garcia
Why should I give a shit about some nigger country?
Justin Young
Meshnets are the future, the Internet will become outdated boomer tech like cable television.
Grayson Walker
Low orbit satellite internet like the one that were proposed Teledesic more than 20 years ago.
James Green
Refugees flooding in if the conflicts lead to civil war there.
Connor Fisher
I saw it too, albeit the possible difference in timezones between you and I meant that I saw it today. The Sudanon did not start any threads, it was the Egyptian that made that Jow Forums thread and probably this thread too.
Carter Jenkins
This is correct. I'm Egyptian user. But my purpose here is different. I'm merely looking for ways to prevent cases of Internet abuse, like the one in Sudan.
What's your point? Just because something could happen doesn't mean it's likely to happen. Also there isn't anything you can do to stop this possibility from existing.
Kayden Cox
doesn't seem like Jow Forums cares but if anyone is interested here is the thread.
Wyatt Adams
You're not obligated to, user. This is technology board. This is a thread about technology that can evolve the Internet into a structure that cannot be abused by governments.
I care about Sudan, but as a Jow Forums poster, I don't expect you to. What you should care about is how the world could go about preventing the possibility of an Internet blackout.
Ethan Evans
>What can be done to the Internet in the future to prevent governments from abusing the Internet in such way? the internet isn't the problem, that people only know one method to the outside is get shortwave going
Matthew King
Incoming East Sudan
Ethan Edwards
This is correct answer
Josiah Flores
A decentralized mesh network could solve this in theory, but in practice I doubt that any mesh network would work out that well. I believe that in practice the flow in the darks would just ruin it.
Jaxon Morales
>What you should care about is how the world could go about preventing the possibility of an Internet blackout. Decentralized mesh networks. Now gtfo.
Ryder Bell
Wifi adhoc meshnets with I2P/Gnunet/ipfs/zeronet/peertube
Logan Adams
Telephones Shortwave radios Snail-mail Mesh-networks Pirate radio broadcasts Satellite cellphones Encoded/encrypted messages Carrier pidgeons/messenger animals, if you are truly in deep apocalyptic shit
Depending on a 99.9% for-profit media-consumption pipeline for communication isn't the way to go.
Adam Hall
The internet can be blocked in places like Sudan because very few people had access to it to begin with.
you say "very few" like it's an insignificant number but 30% is pretty much the entire urban population of Sudan.
Brody Allen
I doubt their internet users all live in one city user.
Grayson Taylor
>70-79% of Americans have internet access I refuse to believe that. This country is full of retarded single mothers that give their 4 year olds iPhones.
Leo Gray
30% is not a lot.... and you'd only have to cut off access at a few locations to affect most people.
Its much easier to cut off internet access in a poor third world country than one thats highly connected with first world infrastructure.
Luke Myers
It's probably just old boomers in rural areas that don't have internet.
Noah Nguyen
Well Europe is dying and has very few children so it makes sense they'd have slightly more users since they have more adults. Same goes for Japan.
Thomas Scott
I don't think you understand how these fiefdoms/warlords work user.
First, without the current prince or king or whatever thug that runs Sudan, it literally would be ISIS running that country. It's filled with extremist terrorist nutjobs and this is never going to change.
Also shutting down the internet doesn't mean """genocide""" is going to go unnoticed, people have phones still and ways to get information out to reporters or whatever just like they did 40 years ago. There's no genocide, likely some CIA funded "protest" is attempting regime change or something and they're just clamping down on the foreign terrorists who are stirring up problems.
Jayden Rodriguez
>Its much easier to cut off internet access in a poor third world country than one thats highly connected with first world infrastructure. yes you are definitely right in that aspect but it isn't about having few internet users. Most people living in big cities probably were affected by this and that is exactly the demographic that can threaten the government by organizing themselves and protesting (especially in the capital).
urban population includes urban areas in all cities, not just one city. I think it's not a stretch to assume that big cities get internet access before any significant part of rural areas where the other 70% lives (Sudan is pretty damn big by the way).
Julian Harris
Well satellite internet will probably help that, taking control of communications away from corrupt governments into hopefully less corrupt corporations.
