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The main reason for me is identity. Imagine that when you first got an internet connection, it didn't come with an @comcast.net or @att.com email address, but rather as part of the setup of your internet connection, let you register your own domain.

The mx records could point to this homeserver box and you would fetch your messages from there. It would be the norm that your graph, photos, whatever would be stored there and you would have to allow access to share them out with others. That would have lead to a very different internet than today.

But the main thing I'm thinking of is having a physical, secure enclave protected, device that allows all internet users to u2f to their ISP in order to have the option for an "ip permitted from" protocol for registration on websites. Something that can ensure that when grandmas pc gets hacked, it's not used to create 100 Twitter accounts to pump some crypto scam.

Today even if we could get ISPs to setup such a system, people wouldn't use such a system as they are already use to easy sign ups, and companies love their growth metrics



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