I have often postulated that were the Internet to become inhospitable, vis-a-vis SOPA/PIPA and its ilk, private networks would start popping up, and eventually start linking to each other. Thus forming another private internet. This is why it is so important to keep the spectrum free and open. Closing it is the only way to stifle such and initiative.
Anyways, this is pretty neat.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/ninja-tel-hacker-phone-network/
Upon booting up for the first time, the phone displayed a list of terms and services that were unusually frank.
“You hereby grant Ninja Tel permission to listen to, read, view and/or record any and all communications sent via the network to which you are a party,” one section stated. “Before you get all upset about this, you already know full well that AT&T does this for the NSA. You understand that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy as to any on the Ninja Tel network. You grant Ninja Tel a worldwide, perpetual, assignable, royalty-free license to use any and all recorded or real-time communications sent via the Ninja Tel network to which you are a party. Don’t worry, most of this is for the lulz.”