U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators

[Drolefille]

As much as they've been talking about kill switches here, it's not possible in the US without a crazy amount of martial law and even then, you can't stop the signal. Too many ISPs, too many people who know how to set up their own ISPs, too many wireless devices and smartphones that can generate a wireless signal. Too large of a country with too much redundancy built into the internet.

It takes a backbone going down to significantly affect the speed of the internet for us now, but the shutdown of those wouldn't shut US down, we'd just have to reconnect. Hell we could create a mass intranet if we had to with a computer in every house.