Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet - Forbes

Users of the social news and community site Reddit don’t like the way the government seems to be muscling in on the Internet. So they plan to build a new one.

Redditors have flocked over the last week to a new subgroup on Reddit.com they’re calling the Darknet Plan–or sometimes Meshnet, as the name seems to still be in flux–with the aim of building a mesh-based version of the Internet that wouldn’t be subject to the control of any corporation or government, with a focus on anonymity, peer-to-peer architecture and strong resistance to censorship.

Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet - Forbes