@megfault Well, municipal mesh might go some of the way towards achieving that. Today if I want to send a message from one side of a city to another chances are that it will go through undersea cables and other choke points which are being bulk collected by multiple governments and corporations. Local communication with a mesh might not go through any such choke points.

But it doesn't actually solve the problem, just raises the stakes. The surveillance state would need more monitoring more densely embedded into the networks.