Do your own research on my statements, they are based on a brief review of their marketing materials from 1-2 months ago:

The biggest problem I have with this project is that the sats are centralized. I don't see how it can live up to 'censorship free.'

It depends on a crowd-sourced list of articles + funding from private advertisers.

You need to be morally aligned with the 'majority of people' - the minorities are still oppressed and marginalized. Corporate interests pay for top hits. Not enough protection against sybil attacks. Many, many many many more problems they need to address.

Neat idea on the face, though, just need to iron out some really big problems (sybil, distributed control of sat systems, ???.)

-Travis

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17:25AM +0100, rysiek wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze:
> > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever
[snip]
> > Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space.


> > device. All you need is a browser.
> >
> > Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.

Outernet, at least, appears to be a real thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet

https://www.outernet.is

> Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related
> to:
> https://getlantern.org/

Appears to be a different project.

-andy



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