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a “meshnet,” where users are paid to contribute bandwidth to a low-cost network of Wi-Fi–connected users who get to bypass the cable

At the time, this was seen as a major opportunity to address the city’s digital divides by bringing high-speed broadband to underserved areas still running connections across old coaxial or copper lines.

Anti-pirate propaganda was a deliberate effort to undermine the legitimacy of a renewed threat to royal power. In reality, pirate ships were more often than not places rich with Citizen innovation.