Not necessary. There is something much simpler which supersedes the need for anything else. Their called Open DNS servers. There are many out there on the net, public/open dns servers, although chief among them, is one of this actual name, and is here: http://www.opendns.com. All you have to do is, (appropriate to your OS), go into the properties of your network/wifi connection, and where you will find TCP/IP settings (probably set by default to ‘obtain DNS server information automatically’) and set the Primary and Secondary DNS server information of the Open server IP’s you chose.

I for example, have used these reliably now for well over 2 years:

Primary (Open) DNS: 208.67.222.222
Secondary (Open) DNS: 208.67.220.220

Cheers!
C:

There’s one more choke point, that will prove harder to work around: the global backbone is in the hands of a tiny number of big level-1 NSPs. Anyone of those NSPs can drop routes to an arbitrary destination on a global scale by simply not advertising it anymore via BGP. It happened even to TBP for a brief moment, and SOPA would make it mandatory for US carriers to meddle with the routes. You can’t bypass a BGP block by routing around it like we can with using alternate DNS or other domain names. DNS trickery will appear like kindergarten play by then, when BGP-blocks are in effect.

So, basically, we will ultimately have to distribute the /whole/ web (and I mean the whole *legitimate* web too!) and make it totally decentralized, like what Freenet and similar anonymizer projects do. Only then will traffic be untaggable and couldn’t be discriminated against at the whim of any little would-be dictator-ceo.

Until then, we’ll remain vulnerable, and, as you’ve said, we will have to work hard eliminating the single points of failure in our global networked ecosystem.

But I’ll concede your point as VPN’s are single-point tunnel systems.

Next up, please list to me the real difference between a “darknet” and a “cloud service”. I think you’ll agree that this is being heavily sold in these days.

The criteria of the darknet is that information is distributed between peers using encrypted connections. This is already in heavy use in many major businesses. The criteria of anonymity and security is already far more stringent where for example accounting is concerned than it is for, say, filesharers.