Shadownet
this was the term used to describe any communications network used to bypass the HoloNet, after Emperor Palpatine instituted the New Order. The Empire quickly assumed control of the HoloNet, limiting access to it by independent news agencies and using it to disseminate propaganda on how the Empire was better than the Old Republic and its reliance on the Jedi Order. Shadownets sprang up on many worlds and across many sectors within months of the HoloNet's remissioning, as a grass-roots method of sharing the truth about the Empire.