Posted on 01/28/2011 9:33:26 PM PST by jongaltsr
Seeing what has happened in Egypt and their ability to quickly shut down the internet got me to thinking about the possibility that at some time in the future OUR Government may try the same with us.
Therefor I thought that to prepare for such an event should be planned by us (the citizens who would most likely to be effected as well as the people most likely to need alternatives to internet connections to stay in communications and keep upraised of events not being reported accurately (and intentionally).
We would have to depend upon our telephones but that can readily shut down by a government that is willing to cut off internet access.
TV and certain radio stations would be all that we could rely upon in such an event. I would imagine that some (Right Wing)-(other than the acceptable liberal radio stations) would be shut down (or can they?)
Can you (My fellow FR conspirators) think of methodologies of maintaining connections to information which can not easily be cut off by our government agencies?
In some countries, people have taken over Radio and Television stations but that requires physically attacking and provoking Police & Military action at some point.
Put on your thinking caps and lets see if there are any of you out there that can devise a plan of action for such an event.
My one thought (so far) is that the government might not shut down the telephone system immediately because that would directly affect so many people that that act in itself would be more devastating to citizens than would the loss of the internet. Therefor a "Tweet" link could be our own second line of information. I'm not sure if the "Tweet" system involves the internet in any way. Is it independent of computer technology and strictly Phone System dependant?
Since I don't "tweet", I just don't know the answer to that question.
Can you devise other ideas? and let us share your ideas "Just in Case !"
/johnny
The concept of the keyboard is older than 110 years old.
End of story.
Cutting off the internet would be the second surest way to unite the American people against the government. The surest way would be to cut off cable/satellite TV.
You’ve lived in the “Bay” too long.
That would be spectacularly ugly.
Miss the Superbowl because of a politician? Bad move, Mr. Politico.
/johnny
I just hope you haven't forgotten your training.
People all over the internet are talking about this very topic... not just political sites.
Superbowl? Heck, just missing Two and a Half Men or Jersey Shore would send millions of couch potatoes into the streets and they wouldn’t be carrying signs.
I read to post 25 and did not see it.
GET A FRICKIN CB RADIO!
What do we do if OUR Government shuts down the internet?
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We use telephones both land-line and cell, and ham radios.
The nets are already set up. Get on one today.
Well stated. ^^
Lock. Load.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not a young'un, you are just older than dirt.
/johnny
How is (was) that possible? Do you mean triangulation and confiscation?
It was voluntary. Because it was war, and that's what hams do in a crisis. They are part of the solution, not the problem.
/johnny
“As for ham radio, they could shut that down, just as they did in WW2,
How is (was) that possible? Do you mean triangulation and confiscation?”
Remember, it was the 40s.
Back then Americans were Americans.
I doubt there was much need for the government to run around with DF loops.
There was just a legal ban on Ham Radio activity.
I was too young to have been a ham then, so I do not know all the details.
The last potential limitations that I remember were in the late 50s.
All ham stations were to have a Conelrad detector.
If all radio was to shut down, you would know from the Conelrad system. This applied to commercial and all other radio.
And many were drafted into special projects and practical vhf radio and radar came out of WWII.
/johnny
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Dial-up BBS’s would be back! Add lots of modem lines to the server Jim!! ;-)
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