• Lemminary
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    212 years ago

    Will he personally pull the plug off the wall so that ISIS stops being a meanie?

  • Machinist3359
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    192 years ago

    To be clear this is unlikely to be a long term nation wide internet blackout. Rather, e.g., turn off the Internet in a section of a city and send in troops to deal with a protest.

    • Phew for a minute I was worried

      I would have accepted this take in 2016 but not anymore. He’s running again to avoid the consequences of his shitty stupid choices. If he wins he’s gonna feel completely unshackled.

      Oh and his allies have already been stacking the bureaucracy with loyalists. There won’t be any voices of reason in second administration because they already chased those people off.

  • @evan@midwest.social
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    102 years ago

    This is literally just “the president has a lot of emergency powers, these are some of them”

      • LeadersAtWork
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        102 years ago

        I imagine the same way all meetings, coups, revolutions, and the like has happened since the beginning of humanity:

        You meet and talk in person.

        • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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          You really think us young adults who have grown up in a world never knowing a time without internet would be able to actually pull that off? I know I couldn’t, even if I tried.

          • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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            92 years ago

            You really think if everyone lost access to their porn machines they wouldn’t immediately call up their friends and say wtf?

                • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
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                  What’s your point?

                  As soon as your calls makes it to a cell tower it gets encapsulated and routed over a telco’s network. Any call you make from one call provider to another will traverse the internet. And depending on the extent of the thought experiment for disabling the internet, you could include disabling individual telco’s networks as well, meaning you won’t be calling anyone… except for maybe someone on the same tower as you.

  • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    62 years ago

    I don’t think he means it in the way we think. It’s more likely he means “turn off” like the sleazy guy at the bar in sweatpants and a stained shirt who hits on all the women. I’d say “mission accomplished” Mr. Trump.

  • bedrooms
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    392 years ago

    Quick, hide that internet button so that grandpa can’t switch it off!

  • gregorum
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    All of the companies that would instantly start losing a billion dollars per second would never allow this to happen. This isn’t some 3rd world country where Google and Apple and Facebook aren’t headquartered. The internet will always be happening here. They’re completely dependent on it and their customer’s constant access to it.

    • @massacre@lemmy.world
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      252 years ago

      Our econnomy is heavily tied to the Internet at this point. Billions in commerce are conducted directly and many billions more in enabled (“what’s the closest pizza place?”). Not to mention stock trading, banking, government services, healthcare, etc. You’re very much on track here and I don’t think it’s hyperbole.

      While it could technically happen that our government could legally shut down the internet, it wouldn’t last long or it means we are under attack (perhaps internally) and need to control damage/messaging.

      • @gorkette@aussie.zone
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        72 years ago

        How much of the infrastructure is government owned? Any if it? I do not think he could do this even if he ordered it.

        • JJROKCZ
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          The alphabet agencies are fully capable of doing whatever is needed, they’re the ones that patch peoples systems for them or hack PCs through the power grid and other crazy shit.

          If the American government wants the internet to be cut off they’re capable of doing it without the assistance of the ISPs

    • Endorkend
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      92 years ago

      Aren’t all 3 of those actually headquartered in Ireland (for tax reasons)?

  • gullible
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    882 years ago

    I’m seeing a lot of Newsweek posted here and that is disheartening, to say the least. Newsweek is half a step from the dailymail’s level of bombastic misrepresentation. Continued use of Newsweek as a source is not ideal as a result.