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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


The internet already is p2p infrastructure.

BitTorrent is just as susceptible to this, it's just there's currently no economic incentive to try to exhaustively scrape it from 50,000 VPS nodes.


>The internet already is p2p infrastructure.

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.




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