Attempts to control the #internet, sold for "#safety", are always about taking away the measure of #power that a #decentralized, #independent #communications channel ("the internet") gave to the Little People, and to return it back to the #few, the #wealthy, the #powerful, the #connected.
What bothers me so much about it is that it isn't just the #brutal, #authoritarian, and #autocratic #regimes that propose it.
#UK. #USA. #Canada. #Australia. #France. #Italy.
On and on.
A mesh network is impossible to control if anything happens to the Internet.
Short of that, China finds their Great Firewall hugely labor-intensive to run, and constantly being shot full of holes by VPN's, Tor, and bridge nodes that change too fast for them to keep up with.