has anyone checked out guifi.net huge community wireless based network. over   
   11000 nodes.   
      
   Dreamer<> wrote:    
   > We're not the only ones still talking about setting up alternative nets.    
   > Here's another summary from Slashdot, with source link at bottom:   
   > Internet Is Easy Prey For Governments   
   > Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 06, @09:02PM   
   > from the all-your-tubes-are-belong-to-us dept.   
   > Hugh Pickens writes writes "Douglas Rushkoff writes on CNN that the   
   > revolution in Egypt starkly reveals the limits of our internet tools and the   
   > ease with which those holding power can take them away. 'Old media, such as   
   > terrestrial radio and television, were as distributed as the thousands of   
   > stations and antennae from which broadcast signals emanated, but all internet   
   > traffic must pass through government and corporate-owned choke points,' says   
   > Rushkoff adding that when push came to shove over WikiLeaks in the US the   
   > very same government authority was used to cut off "enemies of the state"   
   > from access and funding. Rushkoff suggests that we use the lessons of the   
   > internet to build a communications infrastructure that cannot be controlled   
   > from the top. Back before the internet, many early computer hobbyists   
   > networked on Fidonet, a simple peer-to-peer network and now digital activists   
   > propose reviving such ideas with mesh networking over Wi-Fi networks that   
   > could connect inhabitants of an entire city without anyone having an internet   
   > service provider. 'Until we choose to develop such alternative networks, our   
   > insistence on seeing the likes of Facebook and Twitter as the path toward   
   > freedom for all people will only serve to increase our dependence on   
   > corporations and government for the right to assemble and communicate.'"   
   > Source 1 (regarding Egyption cutoff)   
   > http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/05/rushkoff.egypt.internet/   
   > Source 2 (regarding mesh networking)   
   > http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/get-internet-access-when-your_30.html   
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