I'm gonna quote this note instead of replying directly because I feel like it might get too long. I'm gonna admit it: I'm quite the fan of Tor. In fact, I've routed every single bit of traffic through the Tor network, including this note, with the except of my university's sites because they have an aneurysm each time I use Tor to log in to my account on them. However, Tor does not solve the disease of the centralized internet, it merely treats the symptoms of it, that is, the lack of privacy. Much like the free market does not truly exist, neither does the "open internet." Ever since at least the 90's I would say, the internet had become reliant on tech giants. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, each in their own unique ways. Through the socialization of both the clearnet and Tor by the U.S government, they have both became prone to the very economic calculation difficulties that Mises and Hayek warned about. That is, the transaction costs are not eliminated, but merely transferred to taxpayers and consumers. That is the very reason why we have problems like enshittification, planned obsolescence, and crashes. The internet is just as fragile as closed systems like the intranet in North Korea. With concerns regarding digital ID growing more each day, to me Tor is just a way to postpone the enactment of said ID since it still uses servers on the internet to route and conceal traffic, all of which have IP addresses corresponding to the exact same countries that will have it sooner or later. Decentralization is exactly the way to go to freedom from this technocratic nightmare. If everyone used mesh networking, governments would be unable to do anything. We need to ditch the clearnet as much as possible.
