a theorical p2p dynamic messaging and/or voting system which is open sourced for the people.

  The standard model of internet activity is client/server. One server to each client. Another paradigm which is much less often used is Peer to Peer (p2p).

  Peer to Peer allows each client on the internet to serve and well as receive as a client. This allows for a self-administration and self corrective design. But what is most useful and trusted is that control is decentralized. This is good for many reasons; for both uptime and power abuse is *greatly* diminished.

  Some common examples of p2p in action is Bitcoin, Tor and Bittorrent. With the exception of Tor all of these p2p systems are Open Source. Open Source provides the user with the optional ability to self compile and is critical is mediated control to every user involved. It also allows those black boxes called 'Apps', 'Programs','Systems' or 'Applications' the ability for peer review so that nothing suspicious happens without you knowing. (for example bluetooth and web cames automatically set to record and run as the default behaviour.) [I have band aids covering all my personal laptop cameras.]

  There are many services with systems provided with Apple and most notable Windows that prevent us from knowing what traffic becomes transmitted from out personal technological devices. Open Source allows us to not only conserve our personal information but also to extend and share what we've done with those we see fit. Open Source is equated here with Power to The People. And services such as support, administration or development can also use the monetary model. It all depends on each individual situation. The possibilities of Open Source and indeed amazing.

  There are many forms of Open Source software, but none so wordwide known as an operating system called Linux. There are even, in itself many forms of people and group modified Linux. I have with mixed success have used and administrated Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS and SuSE. Depending on any of these or many many other publically downloadable variations it can take as little as 25 minutes or 3 days to successfully fully install and configure these softwares and typical internet apps. You can literally change the source code (if you had a little swagger) to make them change their default behaviour.

  A p2p system in which a bulletin board system (ala a variation of a standard non-p2p model phpBB or vBulletin) delivered messages with time stamps and backups to other nodes could theorically be created along the lines of how famous p2p systems like Bitcoin operate. Except in the case of this theoretical framework instead of virtual currency it would be messages, votes, blogs. Any kind of data. This framework would be a nonstop behemoth using potentially hundreds of thousands or even millions of clients, who in themselves, also acts as servers. Being free from a centralized control system in which the system changes according to the whims of the few are a vital success in producing, like all good policies, a check and balance system free from tyranny.

 I would suggest if ISPS started to ban protocol ports (for example port XXXX where X=1 to 65526) like bitttorrent , a programmer could creatively reprogram this new theoretical p2p message system to alternate between different ports dynamically. That way each very powerful ISP could not ban the people's p2p messaging system as they have, which in my case, was bittorrent.

 I hope you have fully understood what I have written here. If you have any more questions or would like any more indepth to what I've presented here please let me know on @john_t_lutz on twitter. Or here in this blog. Thank you.

Worldy Yours,
John Lutz