Posted on 08/28/2009 8:13:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Taking control of the Internet is like taking control of sharing sugar with your neighbor.”
How do you get your internet service? Through an ISP. There are a variety of tiers to ISP service. As fascism increases, the ISPs will be under increasing government control. Think ATT/Sprint/Level3. Those are Tier 1 providers - they run the internet backbone. Your local ISP likely purchases bandwidth from the Tier 1 providers. They could very easily take it over by controlling the Tier 1 providers.
“Maybe Ham radio?
Or is that something that just worked in old movies?”
It’s still there. Contact http://arrl.org . Do it quick and get a license. There’s no way it would be as fast as the internet as the bandwidth isn’t there but it would allow for communications, both digital and voice. Morse code is no longer required for testing purposes but in bad times, nothing beats morse.
It’s too decentralized to fully control. Zero could institute one program of control and it would be hacked within days.
It’s too decentralized to fully control. Zero could institute one program of control and it would be hacked within days.
Guess who defines “temporary” and “emergency”...
A bunch of highly pissed off citizenry take out the rope, tar, and feathers. Too many businesses around the WORLD rely on the internet being completely unrestricted. Then of course all the other foreign companies in a full blown snit demand Zero be dragged onto the White House lawn and be shot.
>Time for The UNDERNET.
It already exists. It’s called FreeNet. http://freenetproject.org/
It still requires the existing internet but does provide some privacy.
“In theory, yes. However, the main servers the gov is likely to go after are the top-level domain controllers.”
These are called “root servers” They serve at the root of the DNS (domain name service) tree. There are around a dozen root server sites in the US and more are distributed around the planet. DNS is much like a phone book. One looks up a name like freerepbulic.com and DNS returns the IP address of the server(s) associated with the domain. You can see where some of the root servers are located by going to http://www.root-servers.org/ . Take away the root servers and really bad things happen to the internet.
For a very good video on how the internet and TCP/IP works, go to http://warriorsofthe.net/ . This video is standard viewing in the first Cisco CCNA course.
So, what’s to complain about?
I mean, don’t other “Democratic Party”-controlled countries do it?
i.e. China, North Korea, Russia, Cuba, Iran, etc?
Thank you, Myrddin. Ernest, you KNOW I'M a blonde...can you help here??? :)
def. “emergency & threat”: 2010+ elections where the vote is going against the “United Democrats for Fascism” Party.
Such news must be suppressed and the 70pct against vote needs to be “recounted” to become a 70pct for vote, ala Chavez.
Only 55 pages?
Should be at least 1,000 to insure no Dem legislator reads it and so little items like seizing all private property, establishing State Communes, and creating Gulags for non-Dems, can be snuck in.
Also with Obama’s massive and powerful “civilian army”, to be named perhaps, the “S.S.”, “Hitler, er Obama Youth”, or other inspiring title.
My now-deceased WW2 vet father used to say that back in the early to mid-seventies. I scoffed at him....
Sorry, dad.
I've sincee figured out that this is a tactic of the left. They screamed "Bush is Hitler, Bush is Hitler, Bush is Hitler, Bush is Hitler," so loud and so much that when the real power freak shows up the cries of their opponents (us) that "_________ is Hitler" are ignored.
The Hitler comparison has become cliche'.
Same with "The Republicans are going to take away your Social Security!"
Okay, now whose really taking away SS?
They accuse the right, in advance, of what they themselves are planning on doing in the future, so by the time they do it nobody's shocked.
Cyber-Reichstag Fire
What if one takes over internet service providers? Will that not control internet communication in large part?
Can we plant people to post this stuff on DU?
I’m Bill and this is news to me.
Until a new revolution errupts.
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