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[bacasper]

Lots of countries are passing internet censorship or filtering laws, or at least trying to. Most governments would love to get rid of, for example, Wikileaks, not to protect you but themselves against critics.

Internet Censorship of Free Speech Emergency Alert

[Reggie]

I don't want any government officials to be able to shut down the internet at all. I would like to still be able to read and hear news from people other than the US media and corporate media.

[bacasper]

Then I hope you went to Save the Internet and signed the petition demanding Net Neutrality.

[Reggie]

[soakitincider]

He already does.....

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

You really should read the whole article because there is a lot of good and alternate info, but one short version would be to download Daihinia. Then you can link to others around you who also have it. In an emergency, it could be critical.

Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down

Does your government have an Internet kill-switch? Read our guide to Guerrilla Networking and be prepared for when the lines get cut.

By Patrick Miller, David Daw, PCWorld

These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it's organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter. And as we've seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go. Whether you're trying to check in with your family, contact your friends, or simply spread the word, here are a few ways to build some basic network connectivity when you can't rely on your cellular or landline Internet connections.

Do-It-Yourself Internet With Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi

Even if you've managed to find an Internet connection for yourself, it won't be that helpful in reaching out to your fellow locals if they can't get online to find you. If you're trying to coordinate a group of people in your area and can't rely on an Internet connection, cell phones, or SMS, your best bet could be a wireless mesh network of sorts--essentially, a distributed network of wireless networking devices that can all find each other and communicate with each other. Even if none of those devices have a working Internet connection, they can still find each other, which, if your network covers the city you're in, might be all you need. At the moment, wireless mesh networking isn't really anywhere close to market-ready, though we have seen an implementation of the 802.11s draft standard, which extends the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard to include wireless mesh networking, in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop...