content: A: If we imagine that to be true, piping traffic through a more secure manner than what we currrently do isn't a bad thing. At the very least, we'll have continental meshnets which is still a massive leap ahead of the current data farming setup we have now. A significant feature of Skywire is that it caches files so that it's not making requests to California every time it wants to pull a specific media file or something similar. B: the more likely case is that even if there's some level of regulation, it's not difficult to circumvent it. Companies like money. If the US is too restrictive, maybe operators will beam wifi signals over the border to Canada or Mexico to use their cables. The platform is hardware agnostic, so pretty much any way you can figure out to transfer data, fiber cables, wifi balloons, whatever, it'll work and operators will be rewarded respectively for finding the best solutions. C: Authoritarian tampering will result in the same problems as attempts at mass gun control or drug control in the US. What are they going to do, ban wifi?  Hunt for the buried cat6 cables I used to wire up my entire block with Skywire access?