LeaSo what should we do about the "age verfication" (meaning our actual ID/photo verification) issue, which will probably eventually be required to access all or most of the traditional internet.
Seems like we need to make a separate internet with its own separate protocols for those who don't want to submit to it and thus will lose access to the world wide web. Something non-techy users like me could access.
I know about Gemini and Gopher protocols and have used them. They might do for basic, simply formatted text communication, but aren't suited for more complex structures. They're probably limited in other ways too, like how robust or secure they are and how much traffic they can handle.
There's ftp - file transfer protocol. There's Tor, which I know almost nothing about. AFAIK everything else is just http/https.
So are there people working on this, or sources to find out more about alternative networks?
Of course none of it will matter if it gets to the point where our ISPs start blocking any devices that don't provide the required credentials.
Maybe it will come down to mesh networking, at least for people who live in the more densely populated areas.
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