FNS and Net Policy (LP09)

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Proposed by Mike Linksvayer for LibrePlanet2009/OpenConference/Activism

Free Network Services and Internet Policy

As discussed a bit in the first autonomo.us podcast (about 17 minutes in), free software and specifically free network services could have a role in mitigating or preventing some of the bad scenarios (and in abetting good outcomes) discussed in net policy circles, but those policy debates seem to ignore or discount free software. Should we engage policy people? Is there any hope of directing any of their punditry to free software advocacy?

I think the key is to change the game by empowering users to give Dynamic DNS from their own machines (Free_Hosted_DNS), and including that in any free-as-in-freedom network service application. Watch the users love it, and see the telecoms and ISPs just try to tell them they cannot run that application and they cannot employ the Internet as it was designed to be used! Seth Johnson

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