[Freedombox-discuss] NYT: USA financing "Internet Suitcase"

[bob@sluggish.homelinux.net (Bob Mottram)]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:54:46 -0500, Tom Marble wrote:
> The New York Times has an article today on efforts by
> the US Government to support /alternate/ Internet
> communication strategies [0]. (I hope this page is
> accessible to everyone)


My estimation is that governments will assist such projects only in so 
far as it's politically expedient for them to do so.  If you have 
identical systems being used to help people to organise domestically 
based protests, etc, I think it would be a very different story.