I don't want governments to have this level of control over the internet. It seems like you are paving over a technological problem with the way the internet is designed by giving some institution a ton of power over the internet.
The alternative to governments stopping misbehavior is every website hiding behind Cloudflare or a small number of competitors, which is a situation that is far more susceptible to abuse than having a law that says you can't DDoS people even if you live in Singapore.
It really can not be overstated how unsustainable the status quo is.
I think the alternative is to recreate the internet with more p2p friendly infrastructure. BitTorrent does not have this same DDoS problem. Mesh networks are designed with sybil resistance in mind
No, it really isn't. Unless you mean like on the BGP level. But it's p2p in the sense where you have to trust every party not to break the system. It's like email or mastodon, it doesn't solve the fundamental sybil problem at hand.
>BitTorrent is just as susceptible to this,
In bittorrent things are hosted by adhoc users are that are roughly proportional to the number of downloaders. It is not unimaginable that you could staple a reputation system on top of it like PTs already do.
This is already kind of true with every global website, the idea of a single global internet is one of those fairy tale fantasy things, that maybe happened for a little bit before enough people used it. In many cases it isn't really ideal today.
International law enforcement on the Internet would also subject you to the laws of other countries. It goes both ways.
Having to comply with all of the speech laws and restrictions in other countries is not actually something you want.