Comment by bloomingkales
4 months ago
It is very much in the bingo cards that internet gets shut off in America as an extension of strong-arm policies.
4 months ago
It is very much in the bingo cards that internet gets shut off in America as an extension of strong-arm policies.
You mean the substrate of our entire economic engine? I think that's a bit dramatic.
Parent didn't say all the internet at once, it could just be a matter of telling telecoms to block connections within certain geofences when protests start to flare up, Egypt 2011 style.
Could even bring down 4G services while whitelisting POS terminals, keep the Starbuckses up and running.
What, like free trade?
I dunno why you're getting downvoted so much.
This sort of thing seemed unthinkable a decade ago, or even in the first Trump admin, but definitely doesn't now.
Other similarly-inclined regimes like Modi in India have proven the effectiveness of targeted Internet shutdowns.