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What I understand of the project is that the Lanterns(the data receivers, which you can make yourself apparently http://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/

What I understand of the project is that the Lanterns(the data receivers, which you can make yourself apparently http://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/ http://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/) store data received from the satellites on a daily basis. The information, which is voted by global citizens, is stored on it wherever you are on Earth, so you can access to sites like Wikipedia even if you are lost in the wood, for instance. But the goal of the project is not to make money but to give the opportunity to population of countries like China and North Korea (and many others) to access information otherwise censored in their country. So yeah, it's similar to a global radio broadcast.

geographomics 12y ago
> But the goal of the project is not to make money but to give the opportunity to population of countries like China and North Korea (and many others) to access information otherwise censored in their country. This is a laudable goal, but if this became a threat then wouldn't their governments just jam the signal? For example, China already does this with shortwave radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China As this could completely undermine the project in large regions of the world, it seems like a huge operational risk.