Seems like we need a return of the BBS ethos, where anyone can put up some bandwidth and invite folks to join in the party for free. Perhaps internet.org is on

Seems like we need a return of the BBS ethos, where anyone can put up some bandwidth and invite folks to join in the party for free. Perhaps internet.org is only going to create a new market for Internet provision that will be 'easy' to enter. Let them get their chained masses, then roll out a normal ISP with wide open doors. (Of course, this would depend on the ability to actually get Internet in the area .. and assumes they don't have peer licensing all wrapped up somehow.) And then there is this age-old fact, which hasn't really gone away in spite of Zucks' efforts: The Internet perceives toll-booths as damage, and routes around them. Here's hoping there will be "peers on the ground" who will fight this battle from there, too.