Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever

[tedks@riseup.net (Ted Smith)]

It's "censorship-free" in the sense that a nation-state can't
effectively block their citizens from using Lantern. 

So, it's a censorship-free centralized distribution system, as opposed
to a censorship-proof decentralized publishing system like Freenet.

And it's centralized, so as soon as the central authority (the
satellites) are compromised, the whole system is owned.

IMO this is a neat first step -- it's not the whole way, but it's
getting there. Now we just need Freenet or similar on decentralized
microsats.

On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 16:47 -0500, Travis Biehn wrote:
> 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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