the internet shutdown in egypt prompted similar questions about independent infrastructure and corporate control. see for example http://www.openmeshproject.org/ and the comment thread on https://blog.torproject.org/blog/recent-events-egypt. i know that some people were busy setting up BBS in egypt during the shutdown, which has some interesting echoes of rushkoff's recent piece on the Next Net ('dump internet, go fidonet') http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-next-net dan [@danmcquillan | www.internetartizans.co.uk] On 7 February 2011 21:26, Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> wrote:

Good you raise this issue, Rory.

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