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Comment by recursive

6 days ago

Speed of light establishes certain latency minima. Experimental data can falsify (or not) at geographical locations far enough from VA.

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dboreham  5 days ago

"Going through" doesn't necessarily imply store and forward. It could be tapped elsewhere and shipped to WVA. fwiw the idea of running a network in order to tap it is hardly new. The British operated largest telegraph network in the world in the 1800's for that reason.

  • Aurornis  5 days ago

    You think there's an entire shadow infrastructure across the United States or world that carries 80% of all internet traffic all the way to VA?

    It would have to be several times larger than the internet infrastructure itself due to the distances involved.

    All built and maintained in secret?

    • coliveira  5 days ago

      You just don't have imagination. Google, just by itself, controls 89% of the traffic in the Internet. And we know that the government can get any information they want from them, without even asking too much. If you combine this with other major companies operating very close to the US government, it is probable that more than 95% of the web traffic outside China that is easily within reach of these sinister 3 letter organizations.

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