The Internet: Protecting Our Democratic Lifeline
summary
Argues the Internet is the best democratic tool but is degraded by centralisation, tracking, censorship and harmful laws, and proposes rebuilding parts of the network around single-source multicast to protect privacy and scale. Demonstrates a working IoT updater and a chat server implemented with LibreCast, about 90 source lines, using UDP, mmap, offsets and checksums to deliver files to millions with one send; it works locally and via AMT tunnels but needs IPv6 multicast routing enabled on routers to scale globally.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00The state of democracy
- 2:27Human rights and technology
- 8:04Internet as a democratic tool
- 12:33Threats to the internet
- 17:02Redesigning the internet
- 22:36Multicast capabilities
- 28:43Implementing multicast
- 34:56The LibreCast project
- 43:25Q&A and closing
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