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Re:One Step Closer to a Closed Internet by justifier on Thursday May 18, 2017 @11:17PM (#14372795)
but how does that decentralise the system?

a central body will need to maintain those lines and would be critical to the mesh

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Re:One Step Closer to a Closed Internet by ianai on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:50AM (#14373466)
I'm thinking at some point the mesh network abstracts over the current internet. An abstraction that has crossed an entire continent can probably afford a non-crap service line.
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