On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 18:39 -0700, Jason Self wrote: > Thomas Cort wrote... > > > > I live in Gatineau, Québec, Canada, and the Terms of Service for the > > ISPs in my area prohibit residential/home users from running servers. > > Is anyone doing anything on this front? Either coming up with a way to > > securely push data to a server somewhere out on the net or trying to > > persuade ISPs to loosen their Terms of Service? > > Change plans with your ISP, or change your ISP. > > I have a "business" account with my ISP, and they let my run my servers from > my > home. Sure, it costs me about twice as much as it otherwise would but we're > talking about freedom & autonomy here.
Not everyone has the ability to double their Internet costs. Freedom & autonomy for the rich only is not freedom or autonomy. I think the best way to deal with such policies is through massive disobedience campaigns, and where possible, implementing local resilient networks outside the control of any authoritarian entity (such as a state or capitalist). It doesn't seem like OStatus is a protocol well-designed for this - or at least, the way it's currently implemented in StatusNet now. Hopefully in the future, there will be some support for protocol-level encryption in the same manner as implemented in most BitTorrent clients now. I wonder if Diaspora has considered this, since they are running right up against this common ISP policy.
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