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title: Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/meet-the-people-building-their-own-internet-in-detroit/
date: 2017-11-16
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# Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit

When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless networks from the ground up in order to provide affordable and high-speed internet to prevent the creation of a digital class system.