[clue] decentralizing the Internet

[david crandall]

One of the points of the 2nd amendment was in case we ever needed to
overthrow a government, we would have the power to do so.  With what
happened in Egypt, it's almost like guns didn't matter as much as twitter
did.

So with that in mind, having a decentralized source of communication, sort
of gives us some sense of a 'right' to having data, if only in islands.

I think with an addition of a backup for some sort of satellite
transmission, even if it were slow, would be good for a city-to-city basis.
Granted, keeping a bird up in the air isn't cheap, but if it only takes 3
weeks to incite a revolution...

--David

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> An interesting idea, but I don't see how to make it work.  A wired network
> still leaves us connected to ISPs like Comcast.  A wireless mesh network?
> That would produce mesh islands, not an Internet.  You need a backbone to
> connect them, which brings us back to companies like Comcast.  And what
> would the performance be like?  What about security?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?ref=todayspaper
>
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