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The internet can still be turned into something more decentralized, but it wouldn't be easy. What we could do is try to push for more simple internet-enabled devices, where the internet connectivity is truly peripheral (not a gateway into privileged memory access for instance,) and the devices are simple enough that they can be broadly manufactured without so much potential for supply chain compromise and inserted backdoors. That would allow effectively unbreakable point to point encryption to accomplish its goal.

Then somehow you need to get buyin from people in large enough numbers for this spy-on-everyone situation we're in to be impractical, and hope it doesn't result in escalation to even more dystopian circumstances.




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