Editing Ends and Means (section)

===Backbones of our Own===
Still, regional Autonomous Systems will be localized, and radio frequency communications are not capable of serving as ISP-grade backbone links. FreedomLinks will initially be connected to one another via upstream fiber networks, so stopping at this point would leave our ability to communicate with one another in the hands of a few for-profit entities, whose [[terms of service]] may not be agreeable.


In order to achieve true freedom, regional networks will have to either build their own fiber lines to neighboring links, or purchase existing lines outright from established providers. As these lines are procured, existing pockets of material peer-to-peer will grow together, and larger federations of free networks will emerge. These federations will grow in size and operational disposition from Tier 3 to Tier 2, and eventually to Tier 1 networks. That is to say that when the federated networks grow large enough, they will be able to provide transit to other networks, and eventually engage in settlement-free peering on a wide scale.  


To the far stretches of the federation, a user would be able to send information using infrastructure of which they themself would be a stakeholder, a participant, an owner.