New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing laws requiring platforms — including adult content sites, online gaming services, and social media apps — to block underage users, forcing companies to screen everyone who approaches these digital gates.
Can we please start our own mesh network completely decentralized from the main web?
This mesh would need to be completely anonymous where people can connect and disconnect from surrounding nodes and people could host their own websites.
I discovered this recently, looks like a fairly promising beginning: https://reticulum.network/
This looks very interesting thanks for sharing! I am definitely going to look into this deeper and see what I need to get something up and running as a start.