All the Ways to Control the Internet and More
summary
A catalog of concrete technical ways to control or intercept Internet traffic, covering DNS and BGP filtering, deep packet inspection and throttling, IP blocking of VPNs, certificate takedowns and legal orders, mirrored root DNS servers and local copies, the Great Firewall of China, browsers forcing specific resolvers, devices refusing external DNS (e.g., Chromecast), commercial tracking that generates hundreds of DNS requests per page, and new control points like Apple Private Relay. The talk explains which technologies are used, shows that many solutions work only partially, and points out that control often shifts from one actor to another.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:03Technocentric control critique
- 4:05Closed nations: North Korea China
- 6:52China’s Great Firewall
- 9:20Intermediate nations: Turkey Russia UK
- 13:53EU digital sovereignty
- 17:25US global control
- 18:48Global Internet institutions Russia
- 20:52Private platform power
- 27:52Closed devices ecosystems tracking
- 33:50Messaging connectivity monopolies
- 36:17User privacy challenges
- 37:20Solutions for free Internet
- 38:59GDPR side effects debate
- 40:25Sources further reading
- 41:47Q&A
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