That’s a bit radical. We need both. Technology does matter but here are two simple examples for when we need strong laws to protect us from corporations:
Net neutrality, that is, disallowing ISPs to discriminate between packets. P2P traffic can be throttled easily by keeping a list of IP ranges allocated to retail customers and then limit the aggregate bandwidth for that range.
Laws that protect our rights to build mesh networks. It isn’t enough that they are not outlawed. A lobby group can easily push through regulation to outlaw reasonable frequency ranges under some seemingly unrelated pretense, for example.
Virgil Griffith, resident of Singapore and U.S. citizen, was arrested for a criminal complaint where he was charged with violating, “…the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) by traveling to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Yeah, that is the problem, ISP’s have not fully made the switch to IPv6 yet and there are also old local internet infrastructure hardware that have not been changed yet. For example in Germany there are +50% of the population and in Sweden 6%, that have access or could have access to IPv6.
The ISP’s and others have known the issue for what seems a very long time but they get away with putting people behind a CGN (carrier grade NAT), limiting their possibilities to set up home web server and more when they share IPv4 addresses with others instead of having one static public IPv6 address for every thing connected, which would open up alot of possibilities.
It would be good if more people complain and ask about IPv6 to their internet providers.
