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[Slings and Arrows]

I don't get how it works, who owns it, who made the laws for it, where it lives?

Like, could a country just go "fuck it, everything that is on the internet in our country is now free for all of our citizens to download, view and stream"?

 

[Rat Rage]

 

[bucyou]

its made up of al gore rhythms

 

[eddie4]

The Elders of The Internet would like to speak to you. ASAP.

 

[Kayoba]

I'm not an expert by any means, but if I'm not mistaken it all boils to top level domains (.ru, co.uk etc). Each country can pass their own laws and each domain will be obliged to follow the laws of said country. If hypothetically Russia don't like yourfavoritegamingwebsite.co.uk, the ISP (internet provider) can block access to said website. Though it's usually a DNS block, which could be bypassed by manually set another DNS, using a proxy or VPN.

 

[diffusionx]

It's a series of tubes

 

[Slings and Arrows]

I'm not an expert by any means, but if I'm not mistaken it all boils to top level domains (.ru, co.uk etc). Each country can pass their own laws and each domain will be obliged to follow the laws of said country. If hypothetically Russia don't like yourfavoritegamingwebsite.co.uk, the ISP (internet provider) can block access to said website. Though it's usually a DNS block, which could be bypassed by manually set another DNS, using a proxy or VPN.

So the name World-wide-web is a bit of a misnomer?

It's more like, selectively-wide-web?

How would one 'kill' the internet? Or is it impossible?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

How would one 'kill' the internet? Or is it impossible?

The idea was that it should not be possible. In reality a country's data traffic will pass through very few giant hubs.
In NL for example there's the AMS-IX which funnels most of NL traffic: currently (sunday afternoon) 8 Tb/s. Shut it down and you're not going to visit many websites anymore.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

The idea was that it should not be possible. In reality a country's data traffic will pass through very few giant hubs.
In NL for example there's the AMS-IX which funnels most of NL traffic: currently (sunday afternoon) 8 Tb/s. Shut it down and you're not going to visit many websites anymore.

Interesting.

Do all VPN traffic going to NL go through the same hub?

 

[DESTROYA]

Ask China, they put a noose around the internet to control what the people see and read.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Ask China, they put a noose around the internet to control what the people see and read.

They do seem to avoid the woke mindvirus though ⚖

 

[DESTROYA]

They do seem to avoid the woke mindvirus though ⚖

Do they, or do we see only what the Chinese leaders want to show us?