<div>Freedom box will protect disidents from retaliation. See Iran</div>
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<div>But if the Internet is seen as too much of a threat they can just turn it off. See Egypt. It won't do much of anything.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:48 PM, David L. Anselmi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Bruce Ediger wrote:<br>><br>> If you want a decentralized internet, you have to aovid the phone<br>> companies. They're already co-opted, from a security-paranoia viewpoint.<br><br></div>Not at all. The point it keeping content and access to it in the hands of users (big or small).<br>
Telcos etc become just transport.<br><br>Freedombox is awesome. To me it seems the most important Free Software project going right now<br>(well, there's some other stuff Eben is working too).<br><br>See Eben's Debconf 10 keynote, and the presentation he did (at Columbia I think) leading up to it.<br>
<br>Dave<br>
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