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+title: '**Grow Your Own Network**'
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+![image](thefnf-logo.png)
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+**We envision a world where communities build, maintain, and own their
+own share of the global computer network. Free networks, when properly
+engineered, offer their users both a greater say in the governance of
+their network, and more privacy in their communications. Being your own
+service provider is the only way to make sure that your service provider
+treats you right. We call this the principle of digital
+self-determination, and have designed, prototyped and test deployed a
+suite of network appliances that will facilitate the realization of this
+principle.**\
+\
+The free software community has developed a wide variety of software
+components to address various network related challenges. Americans For
+A Better Network, working with members of the community, is looking to
+take those components and deliver a turnkey, self-administered
+networking solution that will allow for cascading self-governance on
+local, regional and global scales.\
+\
+Paired with a cooperative network management suite and integrated
+cryptosystem, our tools will allow for the rapid, simple construction of
+cooperative autonomous systems, with end-to-end encryption enabled by
+default.\
+\
+The entire suite is designed to be deployed using the principle of
+emergence --- meaning that it can be organized in a way that is
+bottom-up, top-down or middle-out. We call the network appliances
+FreedomNode, FreedomTower, and FreedomLink. The management suite is
+called AutoNOC, and the transparent cryptosystem is AutoTunnel.\
+\
+In addition to radically increasing network resilience, reducing the
+price of connectivity, and making networks more responsive to the needs
+of their participants, free network architectures will allow for
+groundbreaking localized applications of network technology. The uses of
+this technology are myriad, and the need is ubiquitous -- anywhere in
+the world, the capacity for self-reliance and self-determination would
+be enhanced by the emergence of a free network. Inverting the power
+structure of our networks is bound to take a while, and we are still in
+the very beginning, but no idea holds greater liberating potential than
+this: computer networks should be funded, built, and maintained by those
+that use them.