content: Today's Internet is already decentralized and P2P. Anybody who wants can set up an autonomous system and a name server, and connect it to any other autonomous system system that consents. Companies do this all the time for VPNs. People keep using the public Internet despite its problems because of network effects. The number of possible interactions is equal to the square of the number of users. Two billion squared is a pretty big number. This is exactly what the government of China wants to stop. Look at COVID-19: information spread over the Internet showed that the Chinese Communist Party was severely punishing people for trying to bring attention to the virus.