The summer of 2013 will remain the moment we finally realized how broken the Internet was, and how much this had been abused. At first #youbroketheinternet was a cry of anger, but also a call to code the missing pieces for a new Internet architecture which doesn't fall to pieces like a house of cards. If deployed on top of technologies that were not designed for it, end-to-end encryption has proven to be "damn near unusable," as Edward Snowden put it, let alone forward secure. But there are actually many new tools that have that feature at their foundation. Antiquated protocols like DNS, SMTP, XMPP and X.509 leak so-called metadata, that is the information of who is talking to whom. Also they put user data on servers out of the reach of their owners. X.509, the certification system behind HTTPS and S/MIME, is broken and allows most governments and even many companies to run man in the middle attacks on you. The trust chain between the cryptography and the domain names is corrupt. Even if DNSSEC and DANE try to improve the security of DNS, they still expose your interest for certain resources. SMTP is so hopeless, you shouldn't even use it with PGP and XMPP fundamentally has the same problems: as long as all involved servers know all about who is talking to whom, it is already by far too much exposed knowledge — even if the mere encryption of the connection, which again depends on X.509, hasn't been undermined by a man in the middle, which is hard to find out if there is no human intervention and no reporting to the actual users when servers pass messages between each other. This is not the way it has to be. We believe a completely new stack of Internet protocols is not only feasible, it already exists to a large extent. It merely needs better attention. Currently the majority of technology people are focused on improving the above mentioned protocols, even though they are broken by design… and can only be improved in some partial aspects. Vastly insufficient compared to what humanity deserves. This project is for those who want to look into a future of an Internet, which actually respects constitutional principles and returns democracy to a mostly functional condition. Yet, nothing of this comes about if we don't provide incentives. Without incentives, Internet companies find no business model in protecting fundamental principles of democracy. Whereas universities have already delivered several decades of excellent research and working prototypes in this field, but they aren't incentivized to produce an actually deployable product. Also standards organizations are powerless if the company that infringes civil rights the most is the one that will dominate the market. In practice, competition is at odds with philanthropy. Currently it takes enthusiasts to fill in the gaps between what researchers and companies have released and turn it into something that actually works for the population. We think we need incentives to polish the protocol stack of a GNU Internet, and by GNU we mean that the involved software needs to be free as in free speech, and that we need regulation to actually deploy an upgrade of the Internet to a version that protects its participants from eavesdropping and social correlation. The lawless internet will always be more profitable than the one that respects what's left of democracy, just like it is economically more profitable to send minorities into concentration camps. It takes political will to disallow unethical business models. If only the new Internet is legal, then the opportunity of commercial gain is equal and ethical for all. Nothing is lost. All the industry should embrace this, as only the monopolists need to find themselves new business models. A video presentation of the #youbroketheinternet project was given at the ThinkTwice conference 2014. For German viewers gibt es die Videoaufzeichnung unserer Projektpräsentation beim Easterhegg 2014. In 2017 there has been an introductory presentation of our legislative ideas at the pirated security conference in Munich.