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Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[โ€“] skillissuer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i don't know what that was comment was about, but you can use satellite downlink to transmit data, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toosheh

it's unidirectional so it's more of an cold war era radio free europe in spirit but with modern technology in some way

[โ€“] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

an cold war era radio free europe

Which is literally what was jokingly called "enemy voices" in USSR, the comment was about this exactly, and yes, I was thinking about the thing you linked.