If they wanted to, could the government shut off the internet?

If they wanted to, could the government shut off the internet?

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easier than you think

They'll just kill the few dns providers and then what are you going do?

A government could create a kill switch, making their ISPs go offline, although it wouldn't affect other countries network.

Manually type in IPs?

Is it possible to rename every single domain name to a site that collects what you were trying to connect to, and then redirects you there? Turning the dns into an efficient datamining system?

do you think normies are capable of that?

Possibly? I mean they memorize phone numbers.

And by memorize I mean have a phone that does it for them.

So the US is handing over their DNS servers to the UN.

Yes, using a billion different methods such as redirecting BGP traffic to nowhere or forcibly demanding telecoms switch off access.

The only thing they can't switch off is a wireless community network like this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Network however jammers can easily be deployed to disrupt them like they did in Syria/Egypt.

Each city could technically set up a highspeed wifi network and everybody could use simless phones to make local VoIP calls and msg chat with each other for free. Each city could then build a wired link to another city to extend the telecom. This would cost hardly anything but of course, immediately you would be arrested for trying this because all civilians communications must go through an assload of expensive licensing and regulations in order to keep that deadman's switch open to kill all comms.

use my own DNS server

They wouldn't actually have to.
People who have an interest in you having internet access would let you download a file of IPs to use as your own DNS. that's worst case.

>not solving your own DNS queries
>not having more than 10,000 sites mapped locally
>not using superior FreeBSD that has this feature out of the box*

It's like if you wanted to be fucked in the ass lol.

>This would cost hardly anything
As fucking if. Google stopped doing fiber because it was too expensive. GOOGLE.

One long cable vs a million short cables, you don't think there's going to be a difference in cost?

All they would have to do is force Comcast and friends to push new boot files to your modem, can't do dick without your isp who are in the gubs back pocket.

because there aren't a million DNS providers and the option to roll your own?

how would your solution use one long cable rather than a million short ones?

Soon, no. Obama is removing the US government's grip on ICANN, allowing it to act completely independently.

>But we're handing it over to the UN
No, we are not.

snopes.com/2016/08/19/america-to-hand-off-internet/

Yes.

DoD can ask Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Charter, Cox, etc. to shutdown Internet access, and they have to comply.

Could we realistically build cheap weather balloons or drones with long flight times to bounce signals off of and thereby extend the range of comms?

It would be difficult because its completely decentralized. The nature of the internet and BGP is such that if one provider goes down, there's multiple fallback routes that the data can take to reach its location. If the government wanted to "shut down the internet," meaning that no one could route between Autonomous Systems, it would require the cooperation of every Autonomous System. That's a huge undertaking. And even then communication inside ASs is still possible.

What other countries like Turkey have done is cut off the flow in and out of the country. That's easier to do. However communication would still be possible inside the nation's network.

The thing is, they wouldn't want to. I'd put good money on economic or even societal collapse if they internet was just magically turned off. Almost all records from health to debt are stored digitally now. Without a way to communicate with a data center a thousand kilometers away, your bank doesn't know how much money you have and you can't make withdraws. The inability to pay for goods and services is one giant clusterfuck. The government of a country like the US would basically be committing suicide if they shut off the internet for a week. It'll never happen.

Did you even read his post kek

That would be literally trivial to accomplish (ignoring the backlash, lawsuits, impeached politicians, etc...).

use cached dns
browsers do that, os and routers also has this

Where I live tax forms have to be filled in digitally.

The government would be kill after 1 year.

They already have an Internet Kill Switch.

In fact, the bill they passed gave DHS the ability to take control of an ISP and all of it's hardware in case of emergencies.

there really isn't much to be done if they're controlling things at the ISP level, is there?

a sat connection that doesn't route through your gov maybe? (not that this would be a realistic option in that event)

they can shut electric power, but everybody would be a little upset, worst thing would be a whitelist internet that doesn't upset the majority

>implying BGP

In total war all those shit doesnt matter

No need. It's easier to just use mass surveillance on everyone like they're doing now.

I would just use unbound.
>some goyim here have 8.8.8.8 as their DNS

Why kill the DNS when you can just turn the damn ISP backbones off?
Boom, no internet for anyone.

None of your typing IPs in, which only work for some websites, and the numbers are shrinking rapidly with VMs being more common.

They could also try corrupt others DNS roots as well.
Pakistan did this a good few years back by blocking Youtube for most of the internet and blamed it on a technical fuckup. Suuuure.
Many things like this happen more often than you think. The whole foundations of the internet are based entirely on trust between peers. Even at the security level.
There was a DNS root being run for years on an unused IP (1.2.3.3 or .4 if I remember correct) and when they found out and started investigating, it stopped and they were unable to trace it to anyone.
That was almost certainly NSA at the time, since we now know they have been spying for a long ass time on the internet at large.
Reminds me of that time some stupid cunts hijacked 4chans domain and had a fake Sup Forums, but their servers crushed under the weight of shitposting. hyper kek.