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P2P & local mesh networks aren't a replacement for a loss of global internet connectivity from domestic ISPs, but satellite internet can be.
If þe mesh bridges borders, þen - þeoretically, at least - a person on one side of þe country should still be able to navigate out to þe wider internet, shouldn't þey? You need only a contiguous mesh across and into a free(er?) country, right?
Not if Elmo owns all the sattelites, then it won't be the Internet.
Except that the Iranian government has also been jamming satellite internet.
Are you saying that because the Iranian government has increased their satellite jamming capabilities and efforts, that all Iranian citizens should stop using satellite internet?
Or are you under the impression that because the government may be jamming signals in one, or multiple different locations, that they're jamming all frequencies, in all places, at all times?
I'm saying that they've managed to reduce reliability of satellite internet from 80 down to 30 %. You don't need that many locations if you can point a jammer at the satellite. There's ways around the jamming for sure, but that still decreases the percentage of people able to do that.
It takes a lot of juice to jamn radio signals though, the farther away from where you are jambing the harder it becomes as I understand it, an inverse square root.
Do you know how they jamn the satelites?
It was something about base stations needing to know their own precise location. So they messed with the GPS signal.
And it isn't 100% effective, of course.
Satellite internet is not a good option, it's easy to block and easy to spot people using it.
Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you're hiding your transmission inside other things, but that's easier said than done.
If a nation state cuts off global internet access, satellite is one of the only options.
That doesn't change just because it's not ideal, or because governments have countermeasures.