Internet "Kill Switch"?

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Is the government(s) going to kill the internet? You decide! Alex Jones - Internet Kill Switch Beta: Government Blocks 84000 Websites and More to Come! - YouTube
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  • Well, on a smaller scale here, there was the recent cell phone cut off at BART in San Francisco, just like they did in Egypt. There is a ramping up of the rhetoric against a free internet by the talking heads and politicos as well. If this happened, I wouldn't be a bit surprised
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    • if it really happened, our freedom will be taking away byte by byte.... it is not good for IM though :-(
    • I did not hear about that...I'm curious - did the BART cops try to keep people from sending pics of them beating up people in the station again? :rolleyes:

      A few more times and they can get their own reality show...
      (jingle) Bart Cops - Bart Cops...whatcha gonna do when the train comes thru...
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  • What he described would take SO long, be a MAJOR production, be LOTS of trouble, and would require lawsuits, etc..., and would cause so many lawsuits, etc... The WORLD would hear about it. ALSO, so far as I can determine, the internet kill switch hasn't even been designed. It is a multipass deal, and apparently that hasn't happened!

    Alex jones later makes it clear what REALLY happened! Rather than shutting down anything, or replacing THOUSANDS of pages, they simply repointed the domains. A complicated and illegal thing becomes an incredibly easy update that takes SECONDS!

    That has been in place since DAY ONE! The KILL switch is different.

    So what IS the kill switch?
    Special software MUST be used!
    Special standards MUST be used!
    Only LICENSED people are allowed to work on networks.
    Classes will be setup to get them licensed, etc...
    Whole subnets could be cut out so EVEN using the IP address wouldn't work.
    Heck, they may tweak IPv6, or convert it to another standard to complicate any extrainternet activity.

    So they will have control of the system and people that work on it.

    Steve
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