<a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/track/Hacker%20Space%20Program/4451.en.html" target="_blank">http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/track/Hacker%20Space%20Program/4451.en.html</a><br>
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Chaos Communication Camp 2011<br>
Project Flow Control<br>
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A modern manifest of cyberspace<br>
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The internet is dead, long live the internet!<br>
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The internet is increasingly falling under the control and<br>
restrictions of governments and multinational corporations. Internet<br>
connections are filtered and censored, not only in China but blatantly<br>
so in 'western' countries such as Australia and Canada. The content<br>
industry is clamping down on infringement on intellectual property and<br>
calls for ever more far-fetching and over-reaching laws to be put into<br>
effect. Meanwhile, telco's are making deals with content providers to<br>
decide how gets premium access and who gets degraded access to their<br>
networks.<br>
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We have seen the internet rise, saw its potential and then lost it<br>
to capitalism and state control. It is time we truly 'take back the<br>
web'. The modern manifest of cyberspace is a call to action, urging<br>
the community to regain control and fight for a free infrastructure to<br>
sustain an uncensored and unbiased flow of information.<br>
<br>
The internet is increasingly falling under the control and<br>
restrictions of governments and multinational corporations. Internet<br>
connections are filtered and censored, not only in China but blatantly<br>
so in 'western' countries such as Australia and Canada. The content<br>
industry is clamping down on infringement on intellectual property and<br>
calls for ever more far-fetching and over-reaching laws to be put into<br>
effect. Meanwhile, telco's are making deals with content providers to<br>
decide how gets premium access and who gets degraded access to their<br>
networks.<br>
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As such, the independence of cyberspace<br>
<br><a href="https://projects.eff.org/%7Ebarlow/Declaration-Final.html" target="_blank">https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html</a><br>
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as declared in 1996 is a thing of the past. We urgently need to<br>
reclaim this independence, to ensure the free flow of information. One<br>
way out is the deployment of darknets and encrypted tunnels layered<br>
over the existing commercial internet. In this talk I will argue for<br>
a more radical option though; I will call to abandon the existing<br>
infrastructure and build our own.<br>
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This talk will highlight various already ongoing initiatives<br>
supporting this bold idea, and ideas that are currently bubbling up to<br>
build grass-roots internet. Wireless mesh networks that connect local<br>
areas, initiatives to connect rural areas to the larger networking<br>
community and the hackerspaces space program] launching this year at<br>
the CCC camp in August, which creates the environment for an actual<br>
grass-roots telecommunications satellite network and unites various<br>
ongoing efforts in this area.<br>
<br><a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/space.html" target="_blank">http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/space.html</a><br>
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But most of all, this talk will argue that the time is here to join<br>
loose initiatives and localized grass-roots telecommunication efforts<br>
to implement a world-wide and independent communications network. This<br>
talk will explore possibilities, challenges and perhaps the need to<br>
unlearn the familiar and adapt to a new era of a truly decentralized<br>
infrastructure without traditional hubs of power and controlling<br>
agencies.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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