17 Sep
2025
17 Sep
'25
10:32 a.m.
On Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 at 10:01, Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
although gopher is probably not a long-term solution,
I suppose it does not
matter as sooner or later the WWW will be regional webs, protected by
corps, governments and netizens themselves. Parts of it will be AI swamps
where seldom one ventures and returns unaffected
I think you might be right. This
(https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/)
has quite a few of us concerned. I know some folks who've basically null routed every
network out
there that has crawlers (from the Big G all the way down to LLM-scraper-as-a-service
companies) so
that you can only see anything if you're on a residential network. Some other folks
went Tor hidden
service-only with their stuff (which makes reading their RSS feeds tricky, to say the
least).
I don't know how this is going to shake out, but it's not going to be fun for
anybody.
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