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[kevin <krattai AT gmail.com>]

Greetz from another canuck, Alex.

I've been actively using OpenNIC since jan 2015 for similar reasons and
via a similar path it seems.

I'm not opposed to joining efforts as I've been working on a unique,
p2p / distributed DNS for one of my projects, as well, using OpenNIC as
a T2 for that.

At this time, I recommend OpenNIC as certainly one of the best
alternatives out there.  I just don't like all my eggs in one basket,
especially if a project like this were to become just another rules and
regulations heavy, restrictive org.

Personally, I remain committed to finding or building a publicly
valuable and easily usable open, user managed, peer oriented, self
healing and perpetuating infrastructure.  I'm always interested in
discussing further.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Thu, 2017-12-14 at 10:29 -0500, Alex Nuta wrote:
> Greetings from Canada.
> 
> I found this project because, before creating it myself, I wanted to
> see if someone had beat me to it. Well done.
> 
> I decided to do this myself following the news that several top
> telecommunications corporations in Canada are planning to create a
> blocking list with no oversight or supervision controlled by three
> major players in the telecommunication and content production
> market.  They are currently lobbying government to discuss the matter
> in secret talks as part of international treaties. Yes, we've seen
> this before. Yes, they're at it again.
> I have no doubt that sooner or later, one of these initiatives will
> pass in the US or Canada, and soon.
> 
> Ostensibly these measures are intended to curb copyright
> infringement, but behind it, it's fairly clear, is to create an
> uneven playing field in the content providing business heavily
> stacked in favour of the companies controlling the block list, and
> turn the Internet into Cable TV all over again.
> 
> And, in my opinion, it won't stop there. The Quebec provincial
> government has already asked that all gambling sites be blocked
> province-wide, putting up a fence, in effect, since it has a local
> monopoly on gambling through its commercial Loto-Quebec venture, next
> will likely be alcohol sales, since the Quebec government assumed a
> monopoly on alcohol sales province-wide, and I can easily see
> governments labelling dissidents and other social activists with some
> kind of terminology which gets them on the block list to silence
> dissent.
> 
> Together the top three corporations involved control 50% of the ISP
> market in Canada.
> 
> In this context, OpenNIC becomes a potential solution, and I intend
> to publicize it to my social media audience (mainly nerds, systems
> administrators, networking specialists and social activists.) 
> I would be interested in any available less technical information,
> infographics, or similar materials to educate the non-technical among
> the group to stimulate end-user adoption. I'll make my own if nothing
> like this is available. 
> 
> I will also set up a few servers ASAP, after reviewing the
> documentation, one located at my office, one in my home office and
> another in my data centre.
> 
> Also, I work in marketing, and if I can lend assistance in that
> department to get the word out, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alex Nuta
> alex.nuta AT protonmail.com
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