housepuma t1_jcvwcfv wrote on March 19, 2023 at 11:34 PM

A country as densely populated as India with a lot of its citizenry well-educated in IT, could create their own internet in defiance of the government. I'd love to be able to do this here in the United States but it's infeasible and I haven't gotten any interest.

noun1111 t1_jcwneif wrote on March 20, 2023 at 3:05 AM

You need a reason to do it.

unbread2122 t1_jcw9n2e wrote on March 20, 2023 at 1:15 AM

Let's hope the bandits form their own internet so we're never far away from scam-calls and steve the customer support rep

lori_lightbrain t1_jcw9fny wrote on March 20, 2023 at 1:13 AM

> with a lot of its citizenry well-educated in IT, could create their own internet in defiance of the government.

those people are windup toys who jump at whatever hoops are thrown to them by the westerners hiring them for offshore work. that's very different from coming up with your own mesh network from scratch, which requires multidisciplinary expertise in electrical engineering, hardware radios, networking software, etc. etc.

cinemachick t1_jcwneq0 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 3:05 AM

Say what you will about the outsourcing of labor, but it's a bit goache to call them 'windup toys.' It takes skill to execute directions from a different country in a different language to exact specifications, even if the task isn't a higher order of intelligence. Just because they're paid less for smaller jobs now, doesn't mean they aren't capable of learning something more skilled in the future.