Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit
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When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Moth...
  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Didn’t get a chance to watch the full video so I don’t know if they cover this. Existing internet service providers, mostly the infrastructure holders like cable companies, actively lobby against efforts like this and have been able to make many local internet initiatives illegal. Here is a good primer on the topic.