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I'd love to set something like this up in Waterloo (Canada). How do you deal with things like child porn or pirated content?

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I'm not an admin, just a user. However, this is the Czech Republic, so such things aren't the end of the world here. I'm sure the police would investigate child porn in much the same way they would with any other ISP, by investigating the user...

I want to setup something like this where I live as well. So the nodes are connected via 802.11s? Who provides the internet access? I'm guessing a few users still need access to the local ISP?

While this isn't the exact same setup, might want to read this for more context on mesh network ISPs https://www.wired.com/2016/07/forget-comcast-heres-the-diy-a....

See my comment above.

I'm also very interested in CZFree. Is there anywhere I can read up more on the technical setup ? I couldn't find anything in English. I'm specifically interested in what kind of connection to the 'main internet' you guys use.

Here is a map of the network topology. Open up the legend on the right http://mapa.czfree.net/#lat=50.05831104094459&lng=14.4759189...

The mesh network is then connected to NFX fiber lines in some places. https://www.nfx.cz/

NFX is then connected to the main fiber backbones for the Czech Republic, NIX: https://www.nix.cz/cs

You can read about the exact connection information on page 3 here: https://www.nix.cz/en/file/NIX_PROVOZNI_RAD_EN

Edit: I also posted the map here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376982, so "maybe" there will be more discussion on the technical side of it.

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