HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoDonald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer sayswww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1413arrow-down177cross-posted to: asklemmy@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1336arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer sayswww.newsweek.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square75fedilinkcross-posted to: asklemmy@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down1·11 months agoThis is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid. Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.
minus-squareashok36@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoRight? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoLiterally every part of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet. No internet means no water, electricity, emergency services, financial services, waste management… It’s the digital rod for our modern back.
minus-squarelinearchaos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoMost of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote. Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS. But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoIf there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.
minus-squarecosmicrookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoDid you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
minus-squareMadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoBrownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate. SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.
This is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid.
Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.
Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
Literally every part of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet.
No internet means no water, electricity, emergency services, financial services, waste management…
It’s the digital rod for our modern back.
Most of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote.
Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS.
But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.
If there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.
Did you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
I think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.
Brownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate.
SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.