Posted on 11/22/2017 4:52:25 AM PST by simpson96
Building their own internet??? Not even close. Providing WiFi is not “creating an internet”.
Probably safer than the water closet Hillary's server was kept in (or was it the DNC's? - but I repeat myself...).
I think this is actually a very good idea. Not just for them, but for many communities around the US.
The most important part is that it does not have a direct connection to the Internet, but is in fact an *Intranet*. While there will be Internet connectivity as well, it will be on different systems, so there is a clean break between it and the Intranet.
Such Intranets can be much more secure, so surveillance by governments and corporations is minimized. (The voyeurs DO NOT like this, so would quickly scream that it is or will be used by “drug dealers and pedophiles”. Nonsense. Privacy is not, nor should be, a crime.)
Local information. No advertisements. Personal information can be exchanged. And so much more.
It will not belong before they are forced to monetize the service (pay by customers or ads). Unless one of their benefactors has bottomless pockets...
(That would normally mean tax money, BTW...)
10 Mbps DSL is what we have and we can watch streaming tv while 2-3 people surf the web. The fastest available here is 15Mbps. They run fiber optic cable wherever they put in new service but they said it will be decades before they ever make the switch.
Nuanced is on my trigger list these days too.
I’d trade my 1gps satellite internet for 10 mbs dsl any day of the week. It’s the ping that kills you.
“We risk our human rights if we don’t take ownership and control over the internet in a way that is decentralized,” said Diana Nucera, director of the Detroit Community Technology Project. Nucera, also known as Mother Cyborg
This just does not make sense.
Human rights, take ownership and control then decentralized, cyborg
10 mbps is definitely a first-world problem. Half of the time I’m struggling along at 600 kbps out here in the country. It’s probably racism.
i looked at their website; as far as i can tell this is fundamentally a grant scam so five “employees” can suck off the government teat:
http://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=us
1. Director
2. IT Coordinator
3. Data Justice Community Researcher (whatever the hell that is)
4. Web Designer (probably the most important employee)
5. Equitable Internet Initiative Program Coordinator
They make claims of having directed 19 “community intranets”, but don’t have a list of them, or how large an area each spans (couple of floors of an apartment complex?), or how many routers/switches/access points in each “intranet” (one each?), or how many clients are served by each “intranet” (3-4 apartments?).
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