To expand on my post from before, Null has reached the end of the rainbow. The regular Internet is no longer capable of sustaining KF. This is typical. ALL websites are going through this due to jeet bot spam, AI crawlers, and targeted predatory attacks. What's happening to KF happened to my company's public website and our internal intranet at least four times this year. For the exact same reasons. We are not alone. 5 years from now there will be regulation on this. Likely, 50 different sets of regulations from individual states as the national government is effectively paralyzed by corruption. The porn bans, KOSA (particularly state level equivalents) and new crypto trading laws are the first step. Governments will likely expand their TV content standards to the Internet very soon. Ultimately it will merge what we experience as the "internet" with phone and TV apps, a process that will accelerate as Broadcast and Cable TV come to their end-of-life and are forced to shut down or make a TV app.
The final blow will be the 2030 FCC Spectrum Auction, which will heavily favor ISPs like Tesla/Starlink who have a strong reason to destroy the old web and work with regulators in California to do so. Don't underestimate these people .. the California DMV and ARB cannot have their new Digital Wallet, Digital License Plates, Digital Auto Registration and Digital Voter Registration work if dmv.ca.gov and arb.ca.gov is flooded with jeet junk spam. This is real, given how much of this is incorporated into the SAVE America Act which will be adopted as state law in many places. This only goes one way Null and it's gaining momentum because of the Voter ID debate. If Americans yield their right to vote without showing their ID.me digital credentials, you can sure as hell know they will be forced to show those just to log into a web browser. By then it will all be baked into a single package deal, which is exactly what JD Vance was working on with Peter Thiel prior to his move into the Trump Administration.
In my opinion all roads lead to Tor. There's no avoiding it with 5G coming down. As of today, Null still has 3 years and 5 months to prepare. It's plausible that the regular web will survive post 5G, but I'm not optimistic.
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8chan worked because of Teamwork between Hotwheels, Null and others. Since then, Jim Watkins has done a competent job of at least running the site, insofar that it's still up and running well. Jim went on camera and publicly disavowed the Tarrant video. Jim also went to Washington to testify in front of Congress about the Jan 6th incident, whereby he successfully defended his personal reputation, his website, and his occupation in front of people desiring to destroy it. Jim probably can't offer any material help to KF but Null should solicit his advice. The same for other large controversial websites like documentingreality and bestgore.
If we are going to build a better Internet, Null should at least make a list of these people and consult them. Preferably put them all into a book and sell it. I've had many interesting, thought provoking, and compelling discussions concerning the Internet with Ham549 in real life. Null should be contacting these people, getting their stories, and at least creating a clear record of how the Internet came apart so we can analyze it to build a newer, improved one.
