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Caitlin Johnstone writes in a blog post over at Medium that corporate censorship is ramping up while people are distracted by the menace of government censorship.
It is true that it is the most controversial and repulsive speech which is most severely in need of protection, and that a government which is granted the power to silence Nazis can be expected to use that power to silence political dissent. But there is no danger of this ever happening in the United States, because corporate censorship can be used to silence anti-establishment voices with far less pushback.
Egged on by the resurfacing of obnoxious and sometimes illegal groups, more groups are pushing for, and sometimes getting, full online silence from other voices. Those in power will have corporations do any of the dirty work that might generate push back.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @07:39PM
Although if the default nodelists are unavailable you would need to add an additional signing key and push your own initial node updates in order to allow access. This is already being done in more repressive regimes while discussions and rfcs are being made for longer term solutions as internet censorship and detection techniques increase with each succeeding year/generation of hardware.
Tor is likewise working on changes to its architectures, but I have larger concerns there since basically all implementations are developed primarily by US developers (I2P has a much broader developer base as well as 2 major implementations and 2-3 unfinished secondary implementations.)
The longer term solution requires both multiple p2p anonymity meshnets, running over existing internet protocols/infrastructure, as well as additional volunteer network infrastructure crossing national borders (probably wireless, since running underground fiber would be both risky, and financially difficult without illegal ventures to fund it and maintain the trenches/tunnels.)