Community ISPs & Net Neutrality

[Jubal]

Wasn't sure where to post this, I think it's probably more "science/tech" than "debate" ish - basically, with Net Neutrality dying in the US, there now seems to be a very real movement brewing to set up a lot more community ISPs and homebrew additional infrastructure to try and retain net neutrality by simply cutting the big corporate players out of the deal. I'll be very interested to see how this movement goes, it sounds like a really good way of trying to make a more distributed, less corp-giant tech system, I guess I'm still sceptical that they'll get enough groups doing it to make a real difference but fingers crossed - Vice's tech department have stated they're going to actively push this and run articles telling people how to set this stuff up.

More info here:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks

[Clockwork]

I'm hoping this will create a new era of net pirates and a generation of tech savvy kids with jury rig setups running rings around 'the man'. Make for awesome dystopian sci-fi anyway. #whatisthematrix

[Jubal]

I for one welcome the cyberpunk revolution

(Not that I'm exactly aesthetically punk, but nonetheless...)