Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle
September 27, 2011

Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the Internet in an attempt to silence protesters.

That has led scholars and activists increasingly to consider the Internet’s wiring as a disputed political frontier.

For example, one weekend each month, a small group of computer programmers gathers at a residence here to build a homemade Internet—named Project Byzantium—that could go online if parts of the current global Internet becomes blocked by a repressive government.

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3 Responses to “Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets”

  1. Here is some BBS server software, for remote access:
    synchro.net

  2. The day is quickly approaching where anyone in the world can buy an internet connection in another country which has the satellite resources available to them. In doing this, that country effectively establishes their own internet circumventing anything the USA does to censor the internet. All web sites have to do is subscribe to that satellite internet service. There is no way the USA could block that.

  3. ok its a meshed network if the government blocks all of the internet like alex say they will do you would have to set a a relay system of the boxes to Canada or mexico just to get to the internet the range on these things cant be tat great and you know the government will just block the signal

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