The last time we left Kim Dotcom, he was busy poising himself as “Hilary’s worst nightmare in 2016” with a brand new pretend political party, the Internet Party. Now, our future President Dotcom is busy rambling to his eventual constituents on Twitter about starting his very own internet. You know, just as soon as he gets enough money to do something about it.
The tweets reference Kim Dotcom’s supposed “Meganet”, which he’s been heralding for close to a year. Meganet would be a de-centralised, non-IP based network not at all unlike the block chain used by Bitcoin. And while we have yet to see any sign of the previously promised Dotcom political revolutions, this one is definitely going to happen, guys.
How would you like a new Internet that can’t be controlled, censored or destroyed by Governments or Corporations? I’m working on it #MegaNet
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
#MegaNet is non-IP based. No more DDoS or hacking. No more censorship. No more spying. All your mobile phones become an encrypted network.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
You’d be surprised how much idle storage & bandwidth capacity mobile phones have. #MegaNet will turn that idle capacity into a new network.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
The blockchain will play an important role and battery drain won’t be an issue with hundreds of millions of phones carrying #MegaNet.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
#Meganet won’t rely exclusively on mobile networks at launch. But the more powerful phones become the more data & traffic they will carry.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
You become the #MegaNet.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
Hollywood ━━━━━┒ ┓┏┓┏┓┃ ┛┗┛┗┛┃＼○／ ┓┏┓┏┓┃ / ┛┗┛┗┛┃ノ) ┓┏┓┏┓┃ ┛┗┛┗┛┃ ┓┏┓┏┓┃ ┛┗┛┗┛┃ ┓┏┓┏┓┃ ┃┃┃┃┃┃ ┻┻┻┻┻┻ #MegaNet
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
Can you guys please send me #MegaNet logo ideas with a white Swan in it? Thank you. Email: twitter@kim.com
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 16, 2015
And if you’re wondering why Dotcom is looking for a white swan logo in particular, a little journey down his Twitter feed will answer that question right up.
(WARNING: Graphic swan violence depicted below.)
My swan was murdered 🙁 pic.twitter.com/lBDShYf7we
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) February 15, 2015
And on Valentine’s Day too, no less.
Dotcom-ness of it all aside, it’s worth noting that this isn’t a completely horrible idea. Similar — if not significantly smaller — networks have in fact been successful, like the Firechat messaging app, for instance. The chances of Kim Dotcom making good on these promises, though, are about as good as that swan’s chance of walking it off.
So if you care at all about swans or a free internet or the 140-character pipe dreams of an increasingly irrelevant man, support Meganet I guess?