I also use a VPN at all times. I expect VPN's to be banned. I expect HATO to get dragged into direct combat with Russia by Macron putting officially French army boots on the ground and quickly to require HATO to rescue them. The result of that will be wartime powers treating encrypted and anonymous communications as espionage and acts of war. I doubt any VPN provider will put up much of a fight against military occupation and seizure of their offices and hardware.
These things concatenate. Without actual infrastructure we own, ISP's can decline to transmit anything encrypted through their pipes. During war, even if a crypto network did exist, they could just seize it.
Right. It's possible vpn might be banned in time.
We need to start using our own infrastructure as you say. i've been thinking (and researching) for a while about buying equipment to use long range mesh networks. We can use Briar over bluetooth (and internet i think) already. There are several options. The name of a particular protocol which can be used over any network escapes me at the moment. Sideband app can be used on android for it. I'll let you know when i remember the name.
Then there's also people developing (or even in use already) parallel internets - Qortal being one
Qortal is developing Reticulum, a radio based (cell phones are radios) mesh network. That is the best idea I've seen to date. There may be other mechanisms that are being developed covertly. I sure AF hope so! There are extant mesh networks it seems to me H4x0rz could develop hostile parasitism on, such as LoRa, Bluetooth local, and etc. I reckon adopting all of these, because diversity is truly decentralizations strength, just as unity and conformity is centralization's strength.
There may be ways to ride on the internet parasitically. Again, I sure AF hope so. I do not know of any, though.
Reticulum is the one i was thinking of. i knew Qortal had plans for an alternative internet but didn't know they were planning to use Reticulum. i'm pleased to hear that.