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The solution to this is technical. Countries like Iran or China can censor the internet because users traffic goes through centralised bottlenecks called ISPs.
by motters 17y ago
The solution to this is technical. Countries like Iran or China can censor the internet because users traffic goes through centralised bottlenecks called ISPs. If we had longer range wireless networking, and enough people using it, mesh networks could be created where there is no central point of weakness. In such a network any attempt to censor individual nodes just gets routed around.
We need to be working towards a situation where this kind of internet censorship is not just antisocial or unethical, but is also technically impossible.
- sz 17y agoThen the government outlaws such wireless nodes and threatens to kill off anyone who has one. The nodes broadcast their presence wirelessly so they have no difficulty tracking down the dissidents. After a few dozen people are decapitated in public, civilians become too afraid to try anything. Wireless mesh networks become a communication tool for rebels at best. The solution is political, this is a technical workaround.
- est 17y agosadly, countries like China has a tight radio/broadcast/wireless control policy. You have to apply for expensive license from government even for a freaking satellite TV receiver