[Drolefille]

Right, that was the kill switch they keep talking about. It recently got brought up again. Obviously it would hurt businesses, but my point is it couldn't be done to shut up 'the people' which is why Iran/Egypt/etc did it.

The fact that it would hurt businesses means any administration would require a pretty extreme emergency to do it. Skynet going online or something perhaps.


To elaborate more, what Iran did was first filter sites, hence the use of proxies to access social media sites. Then it shut down ISPs. In Egypt they cut the switch at the four ISPs that handle all traffic in and out of Egypt, even though internally there was still some connectivity, it wasn't much.

One article I read put it this way, if you cut our internet off from the rest of the world, it's arguable about who would actually be worse off, us or them.