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by Supermancho 2387 days ago
> Anyone can buy a router and start an intranet.

Thats more like saying that anyone can pick up a piece of mail and become a mail carrier. There are all manner of legal and practical barriers that require an internet to work outside of your street.

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Perhaps this is true where you live.

Where I am, it's a simple matter of setting up some high-power relays and building a mesh network in the permitted radio band. People do it all the time.

Also, I think you meant courier. Mail is quite tightly regulated at the federal level, at least in the United States.

As there are to carry packages.