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Comment by AndrewKemendo

At this point the access points and the global data and surveillance system is too complicated and interconnected to dis-intermediate the access point and the network itself

That is to say you cannot even connect to IP addresses unless you’re already part of the global whitelist for APs

Try yourself. Get a VPN and then connect from certain regions and to won’t get very far and you’ll be slooooow

You’ll say, oh, that’s because bad actors and are therefore blacklisted - and now you’re back to the same problem: their resource is being limited by some social structure that is by definition constrained

You cannot differentiate the broader system from the access point, so long as the system controls which access point access then it doesn’t matter what you do

The only solution is to build an entirely new Internet from scratch, not controlled by the people currently google, amazon, cloud flare, respective ISPs, Netflix, etc…

The Internet is 99% controlled by a small set of corporations that most people haven’t heard of

Just try launching a competitive DNS service and see how far you get

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