Decentralized Internet:

The good news is that there are people working on blockchain projects and other things that tries to decentralize the Internet.

Substratum

One of the projects is called Substratum.

Internet Highway

The Internet is like a highway. So, in India, they may block the highways of the Internet. But that means the people have to make their own highways or find other roads or airplanes, etc.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

To get online, many people connect to a Internet Service Provider (ISP). However, that is not the only way to connect to the Internet. It is simply the main way and the easiest way.

Centralization Tyranny

One of the problems with ISP and other things is that it can be too centralized which means like only one big Internet Highway which means that if they block that path, that road, then you cannot go online.

Options

Decentralization is all about having millions of different roads to access the Internet through. The more roads you have, the harder it becomes for governments and tech cartels to stop people from accessing the Internet.

What is the Internet?

Very simple. The Internet is like 2 phones connected to each other or two computers that communicate with each other. So, it is all about finding ways for your computer to call another computer. Decentralized Internet is where one computer is connected to another computer which is then connected to another computer, etc, via Ethernet cables and/or wireless (WIFI) connections, etc.

Centralized Internet

Centralized Internet is where the computer is connected to the ISP. And if the ISP hates you, then the ISP might terminate your Internet service. That is the advantage of decentralized Internet.

Computer to Computer to Computer, etc....

If I connect to your computer and you hate me, then you can block me. So, no problem, I could try to find another computer to connect to. Now, not very many people have decentralized Internet.

Working On It

But people are trying to develop decentralized Internet.

Not Very

Right now, in the world, most of the Internet, maybe 99% of the Internet, is very centralized and not decentralized. That is not good.

Blockchain Boom

But in the next ten years, in the 2020's, the Internet will continue to become more decentralized. People are working on that all around the world right now.

Fight

Governments and tech cartels are trying to stop them.

Legacy

But people will continue to work on these projects that attempt to free the Internet from excessive amounts of centralization, censorship, hacking, editing, removing, banning, destroying, etc.