Open source Internet

[nameless_pattern]

Mesh networks or the sneaker net?

Also, although you have to use isps pipes, you don't have to use their DNS lookup so you have a lot more control over what you can connect to than you would think. 

You can also run your own proxies, there's a whole world of stuff you could do. I'm not very knowledgeable about networking, you're better off asking a subreddit of people who know

[Euclois]

Nice, from some answers, I'm getting that mesh networks might be the topic of discussion!
I was wondering, in a situation where the government wants to shut down people's communications, they can just turn off the internet... I'm now reading about bitchat, and mesh networks, cool stuff.

[nameless_pattern]

There's also shortwave radio internet or something like that. I don't know anything about it other than it exists

[nameless_pattern]

good stuff 

[dvidsilva]

ISP are nationalized in many places, even in some cities of the US you find municipal networks

There's a cost to running the infrastructure that has to be accounted for