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I think he is too much of a narcissist to do something that would reduce the amount of attention he could receive.
Also:
Will he personally pull the plug off the wall so that ISIS stops being a meanie?
Classic coup move
Hands you a hollowed out hard copy of 1984 with a Sig 320 inside
We are going to need a lot more people trained in Gun Kata soon, Cleric.
But for now, its dangerous to go alone, take this!
I don’t know where Equilibrium came from but i approve.
I was replying to a user named Grammaton Cleric.
Oooooh, I missed that too. I love that film.
Good luck.
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.
Oh, that’s okay then!
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Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
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This is literally just “the president has a lot of emergency powers, these are some of them”
“CHECKMATE, NERDS!!!”
ROFL!!
If anything would get people fired up for a coup, it’s that.
How would you communicate about it? Lol
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.
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.
You really think if everyone lost access to their porn machines they wouldn’t immediately call up their friends and say wtf?
That call likely uses the Internet as well.
People generally use apps and such, but as far as I’m aware most phones still come with a phone number these days
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.
In secret like we use to.
It’s possible that he saw the episode and thought it was real.
It’s not a big truck
It’s not something you can just dump something off of
It’s a series of tubes
I know that qoute is a meme and all, but honestly I think the old dude had an idea of how the internet works and comparing it to a series of tubes aint completely wrong. I think he was just kinda bad at explaining it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
Genuinely a cool song!
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.
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I might have offended the “sweatpants and stained tshirt” crowd. I apologize for my callousness in comparing you all to Trump.
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So would you consider yourself a “stained t-shirt and sweatpants” person, a Trump supporter or a combination of the two? I seemed to have struck a nerve.
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Quick, hide that internet button so that grandpa can’t switch it off!
“Go ahead and pull the internet plug, gramps! I’ll be pulling your plug soon enough anyways”
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.
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.
How much of the infrastructure is government owned? Any if it? I do not think he could do this even if he ordered it.
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
Aren’t all 3 of those actually headquartered in Ireland (for tax reasons)?
No, that’s just the tasty part of the Dutch sandwich
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.
I’m surprised how many users upvotes click bait headlines.
He’s going to call Bill Gates to do it.
You kid but he literally names Bill Gates in the article.
What about Bill Microsoft or Bill Windows?
I am half convinced if Gates hadn’t transferred in people’s minds from the head of Microsoft to that billionaire philanthropist, he might have gotten Bill Microsoft.”
He can sit alongside Tim Apple and Commander Cisco.
