And as for the SSL cert authority itself, it is also subject to the tests of social and government pressures. one might argue that you can still continue and look at them if you want, sure but only at great inconvenience. and they've even gone as far as obfuscating the 'bypass' button in those warning screens, so now the average user has essentially been blocked from visiting a plain text http site. sure the user is presented with a scary screen that warns them (or rather scared them) of some impending doom should they continue on, such as being hacked or a hacker seeing something etc. and in the case of SSL certs, all the major browser companies have since around 2014ish, FORCED ssl onto the end user. the problem i have with this is just like with home ownership or 'owning' really anything material, is there is a central authority that keeps track of who owns what and that authority if pressured by special interests or governments can and will take that property away from you. So domain names have from the start, been a piece of digital real estate. There currently isn't an alternative to DNS so users are forced to use it to access sites on the web. Thoughts on forced HTTPS/SSLīasically the way i see it is big tech has covertly implemented a killswitch. It's the belief that the internet has been taken over by big corporate interests and dumbed down with the goal of creating digital consumers. This index will exclude most projects based on crypto currency as i beleive most of them to be outright scams and the ones that seem to have legit use cases could still one day be usurped by a better newer coin thus jeopardizing whatever is built on top of them.Ĭontribute to this list by making a pull request. 🪦 Dead Internet Theory Index ☠ ️ A list of chat rooms and chans and forums that aren't controlled by big tech and allow free speech.

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