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ciaogiorno on Jan 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Could Egypt Happen Here? Obama's Internet "Kill Sw...

Why do they need to kill the entire Internet? Why not have a provision to keep certain services online? Or only shut it off in certain areas?

Shutting down the Internet for the entire U.S. seems like it could only be used for bad.

jacquesm on Jan 30, 2011 [–]

I can see two immediate uses:

- crowd control

Disrupt the ability to organize to some extent.

- poison pill

A way to completely shut down the economy and to deny the enemy access to a critical resource in case of an invasion (far fetched).

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