The limitation Bitcoin Miners, Bitcoin Nodes, IPFS, P2P, Bit Torrent, Hive Blog nodes and/or miners and/or witnesses, blockchain and cryptocurrency related things, is not merely the centralized power and control of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) who may control the Domain Name System (DNS) either completely or partly in making the lists to connect IP addresses to URL web addresses, domain names, as there are alternative DNS systems, services. There are projects out there seeking to give people alternative Internet routes, traffic, to get around ICANN, etc. I've not tested any of the alternative DNS systems yet.

But moreover, a bigger limitation can be in the gateway into the Internet which for most people is via an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and that includes the Bitcoin Miners, the Hive Blog Witnesses, etc.

Proxies, virtual proxy networks (VPNs), TOR, encryption, ad-hoc, mesh networking, etc, can help mask your IP address perhaps or at least in some situations or it can help give people some privacy and some freedom and yet people still have to either access the Internet through an ISP directly or indirectly via proxies or whatever else there may be. But regardless, most people have to access Internet through ISP, Regional Service Providers (RSP), Global Service Providers (GSP), etc, things like that.

What are these Internet Kill Switches?

And I don't even have time to even mention the major Internet highways where most of the global Internet traffic occurs on, the main backbone, the main data centers, routers, servers, satellites, cell phone towers, the fiber-optics lines, other major lines, many which may be owned by governments, giant corporations like Google and other big tech tyrants, meaning some of the largest gateways, dams, routes, etc, like over 90% of the Internet Infrastructural Ramps & Exits, are centralized and controlled by them meaning Internet Kill-Switches can stop the flow of like over 90% or maybe even as much as 99% of Internet traffic or I would hope that number is getting smaller each day but it still a big number.

Is the Internet like a river with a giant censorship dam?

But still, the powers that be can try very hard to shut down large aspects of the Internet to the extent people are not successful at rerouting traffic to get around potential blockades of web traffic. Most of the Internet flows through giant rivers and they have these giant dams. So, we have to find small streams and alternative routes to get around those dams in order to remain as decentralized as possible online. But I don't have time to really talk about the dams and instead want to focus on the power ISPs have.

Internet service providers have a lot of power and I must confess that I've not been able to access the Internet apart from an ISP and perhaps there are some ISPs who may be better than other ISPs. I do not know if it is possible to turn a computer into an independent ISP outside of local access networks (LAN), ad-hoc, mesh networks, things like that.

I know a little bit about connecting computers to other computers but I do not know if there are ways to connect to the world wide web (WWW) outside of plugging directly into an ISP or whatever else there might be. I'm aware of Substratum and other projects which attempts to decentralize the Internet. But I've not experimented too much on some of those projects so I can't say too much on what is and is not already out there or how well different things may currently work.

I would love for ways to decentralize the process a computer takes to access the Internet whether that be via different ISPs simultaneously like you would connect to different Bit Torrent seeds or leeches simultaneously and/or whatever else or however else there may be for preventing Internet Kill Switches from crippling decentralized networks, etc.