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Outernet - Information from Outer Space

posted by Cactus on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-panic-and-always-know-where-your-towel-is dept.

AnonTechie writes

Media Development Investment Fund, a New York based non-profit, is looking to offer a world-wide data stream free of charge.
Dubbed the 'Outernet', the network will broadcast a one-way data stream to the entire world via a network of mini satellites. The idea is to bridge the digital divide, offering some of the most important (and basic) information on the internet to people regardless of location.

Outernet has posted intention to deliver staples such as: local and international news, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Ubuntu, various educational courseware, and emergency communications systems for use when cell systems fail.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by gishzida on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:52AM

    by gishzida (2870) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:52AM (#7185) Journal

    KillSats are "expensive". There are very few States which have the resources and the infrastructure to launch KillSats. It's easier to outlaw the "receivers" and publicly "firewall" [which is to say "shoot"] the users discovered in the possession of "illegal foreign technology". A bullet used locally is far cheaper than a missile. This latter is the method that North Korea and some other "Failed" or "near Failed" states would probably use to suppress "free information" if this is actually developed.

    Reading web pages of the organizations about selling "investment in emerging media markets" makes one think they are selling the ability to "propagandized" those same markets. This makes me wonder how "a New York based non-profit" would obtain the money and the permission to build such a satellite network. Could this be "government propaganda" dollars at work [Think "Voice of America" for the new century]?

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:58PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:58PM (#7580)

    publicly "firewall" [which is to say "shoot"]

    "firewall" because they are put up against the wall, and then someone shouts "fire"?

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