How though? There are fundamentally only 3 ways right?
1) PoW L1, i.e. a distributed db with public read access and write access mediated by energy with a network effect strong enough that it will never be displaced (so Bitcoin)
2) Make all the data that's being hosted encrypted in equal size indistinguishable chunks so that infra providers can't discriminate even if they want to. (so something like Garland aka the thing
@Max proposed recently)
3) Pay infra providers enough money that ideology becomes marginalized as a motivating factor as to why the operator would or would not host your data (this is kind of the defacto solution but it fails in cases where the gov mandates censorship)
Out of all these options it seems like #2 is the only one that is actually maybe workable at scale (obv bitcoin works but cannot hold all the state in the world). And *storage* is the relatively easy case. If you want ideology-neutral compute you need homomorphic encryption. (and I guess that's possible but not really fully solved... I don't know enough about that to be sure)
Every time this neutral infra thing comes up in a mainstream forum like hacker news or something, it's clear that the only solution people can agree on is like "the government should force them to be neutral" (lol) I feel like saying yeah maybe that worked in 1996 when the gov was the "containing superstructure" of the world and the internet/media was a like a subsidiary realm, but now that the roles are reversed, well, math to the rescue I guess (why does that sound familiar?)
Not saying a political solution is bad, I'm just saying it's impossible.
Technical solutions are hard, but possible.
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