Hey everyone, I’m new here but all this news about age verification and data privacy got me thinking about how the Internet itself works and how we connect.
I recall hearing somewhere that a town in the US created a city run internet provider and it significantly increased speeds and lowered overhead, as well as provided more of a voice to its users.
How would you go about implementing this from the technical side? I figure it would be an uphill battle politically, but I don’t see a lot of good alternatives in this day and age. I love the idea of I2P and Yggdrasil, but as a matter of user accessibility, they take at least some technical experience and time to set up.
All true. It would be easiest to lay in heart of the city where it is most dense to attract more customers per square mile.
Ideally, the utilities are made public and regulated by the public, but nationalizing or bringing it under state control is an even harder political sell.
I’ll have to spread the word one way or another, which will be tough when so much is happening these days.
If it could be done, it would be in Seattle, given that the city owns its Utilities already.