Autonet – An Autonomous Internet
Autonet is a project to create a wireless, global internet that can provide more reliability than corporate phone companies by being community based and freely licensed.
The cutting off access to The Pirate Bay by BT in the UK is just another sign of the beginning of the end. The fact that the Great Firewall of China exists signals that the internet is already obsolete and that the Great Firewall of the US is just around the corner. While moves against net neutrality began years ago and have been fought, nasty laws such as HR4437 and the Total Information Awareness program have a way of coming into existence later in the future, slightly modified, under different names. Continue reading