Just want to reassure all of you who are worried about the government “shutting down” the Internet, or even portions of it.
Every bank in the world, almost all large businesses, and every large financial transaction in the world, today, is made over the Internet; that includes the business of the FED and the US Treasury. All international diplomatic communication are carried out over the Internet, and at least half of all military communication.
The Government cannot shut down the Internet without shutting itself down (which is really not a bad idea, actually).
If the Internet were shut down today, all the communication necessary to maintain trucking shipments, for example, would be lost. In 72 hours Washington DC would be starving. Every major city in the country only has enough food to sustain it for 3 days, and only the continuous replenishment by truckers keeps those cities from starving.
Shutting down the Internet would eliminate all electronic Bank transactions (which today is 99% of them), and eliminate the control of most nation-wide control system (think gas and oil pipelines).
Shutting down the internet would mean the almost instantaneous destruction of the world’s enonomy and society. Even Obama is not that stupid.
Think it over.
Hank
It's not a matter of stupid. It's a matter of marxists goals.
Think it over.