Hey everyone, I’m new here but all this news about age verification and data privacy got me thinking about how the Internet itself works and how we connect.
I recall hearing somewhere that a town in the US created a city run internet provider and it significantly increased speeds and lowered overhead, as well as provided more of a voice to its users.
How would you go about implementing this from the technical side? I figure it would be an uphill battle politically, but I don’t see a lot of good alternatives in this day and age. I love the idea of I2P and Yggdrasil, but as a matter of user accessibility, they take at least some technical experience and time to set up.
Where I lived before in Sweden, it was the municipal power company that built a fiber network, since they already had all the right-of-way and know-how/staff for pulling cables. The power company itself only maintained the physical network, and opened it up to third party ISPs to run the actual internet service, allowing to could start an ISP using the network and any customer could choose any ISP. ISPs would compete on price, support and value-adds like IPTV and telephony.