system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If we become dissatisfied with the way the Internet is run, what stops us from creating a new worldwide computer network?
gpt
The biggest thing stopping you (or *anyone*) from creating a new computer network is simple: where do you put the wires?

You can't just start digging up streets and burying them; you have to get permission from your local municipality to do that, and they won't grant it because they already have a deal with whoever your ISP is.

You can't hang them off telephone poles, because the phone company owns those poles, and they aren't going to lease them to a potential competitor unless they are ordered to by the municipality (who won't do it because they already have a deal).

Even if you could get the permission to dig up the streets and/or string up the cables, then you actually have to go and *do* it. And you have to wire up everyone's houses. And that gets hellaciously expensive very quickly. It's so expensive that not even the biggest ISPs in the US want to do it.