The Answer To Net Neutrality... Substratum
Recently Net Neutrality in the United States was set to be dismantled by the F.C.C
Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet Service Providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites(1).
Basically, Net Neutrality allowed a freer Internet to exist where companies could not dismantle and degrade the Internet as it is tampering with speeds and blocking content.
Although, that's gone and over with.
There is a solution and one that exists right here in the Cryptocurrency realm.
Substratum and Net Neutrality
Substratum ICO'd in the middle of 2017 with a mission:
"An open-source network that allows anyone to allocate their spare computing resources to make the Internet a free and fair place for the entire world.(2)"
Now, the original intentions were to help with dictatorships and encroaching governments that would block access and Internet to its people.
China is one of the biggest bad guys in the field.
Although, with Net Neutrality being repealed allowing companies to charge more and block content they feel necessary in the United States, Substratum seems to be the answer.
By having computers across the world getting bits of the search data, although coded, it can allow someone to be on the Internet freely, similar to a VPN but without jumping through hoops and without the ability to trace the data.\
It's a codified method for free Internet...
And that's why Substratum and Net Neutrality go hand-in-hand as it ensures the rights that Net Neutrality helped keep.
With all of that, it seems that people are starting to take notice, as today alone the price of Substratum has gone up to $.23 after sitting around $.11 and seems to be on an uptrend (per coinmarketcap).
Will it continue?
We don't know, but what we can say is that the mission and nature of what Substratum is trying to do is a noble one, and it is companies like this with the real world, practical application that will be the Google and Amazon of tomorrow.
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this is worth checking into ..resteemed :) just checked on coin market cap Substratum is up to 0.29
So that's one thing I'm a little confused about: with Substratum you would still need an ISP to connect, would you not? Or as long as you only went to Substratum sites and still had cables running to your house, would you actually not need an ISP?
Don't seem to be able to resteem anymore and wish I could, since the FCC just gutted Net Neutrality.
Substratum sounds interesting! Net Neutrality is bull! Nothing ever happened. It's just more legislation which they can use to screw us over. The Free Market is not regulated. Right now, ISPs compete wildly for our business. The less legislation the better.
And from the horse's mouth: