Packet over radio does exist, and it’s sloooooooooooooow and there’s tons of loss. Imagine the first modems over phone lines, then slow it down more.
Legally, in the US, it can’t be encrypted, either. A single geostationary satellite would be faster, especially if latency wasn’t an issue.
As much as I love Cory Doctorow’s work, this is a stretch. The crack in the door only comes once everything supporting the consolidation and oligarchy of the tech industry comes crashing down. The broligarchs have their contingency planning in place already, so a crack in the door might exist one day, but it’s going to take a lot more than EFF and a few niche rights groups to make any change there. The tech money is digging in, and doing so in ways that are edge cases for even digital rights groups.
The post-WWII order is gone, the post-Cold War model of economics is over, and the post-9/11 surveillance state is now wearing a mask with hoses that feed it super-strength drugs. It’s that the costs of the old bargain are double for everyone that isn’t a FANG, and now gone for them. Just like the Western economy, it’s bifurcating towards different planes of existence that know of each other but barely interact IRL. Which is not sustainable, but for how long we’ll wobble, it’s hard to say.
Digital rights and privacy groups need to be proactive and demonstrate uses cases for both, and make use of them while expecting the non-sustainability of the current system to one day give way to something new.
So step 1 is, for now, strap the fuck in and get your house in order. Build skills, teach others. Step 2 one day is going to be on the heels of massive cultural and political change.
To view and view alone, use an alt fronend - https://imginn.com/ You can “follow” by bookmarking the users within the frontend.
For everything else, just make a sockpuppet account or buy an account if you can find a reputable site (lol) selling aged accounts. You might be able to buy 10 for $40 or something and 1 might really work.
The discover page won’t work without an account because the algorithm is defined by the account.
It’s also slow AF. It’s potentially faster to have someone read you text than get it by packet over radio.