More likely, time to move to governed cyber communities, where taxes will go towards providing infrastructure and maintaining rights.

Asking for more government (analog in this case) is just kicking the can down the road.

Your tiny cool self-regulating community, will either die, be eaten by Facebook or become Facebook.

I think the point was that there basically is no fully technical solution. Regulation has to come from the society in question.

Granted, I'm holding out hope that someone surprises us with a technical solution. I just don't have high hopes there.

It’s not about about being cool or making a hip new website. The point is that people won’t choose to pay for services when free ones exist. It requires a monetary obligation in the form of taxes. Countries don’t function because everyone decides they’d like to pay for the infrastructure that benefits everyone. They function because that money is collected in the form of taxes.

x.25 was my favorite

Haven’t seen that in awhile. Used to help run some EDI and PPP services hung off an x.25 node right down the road from CompuServe in Ohio. The PPP router didn’t even authenticate the user lol, just welcome to the network! I bitched about it for a long time before a demo changed minds.