Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet' if Elected, Former Staffer Says

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Donald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer says
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It was built to survive a nuclear war.

It will survive Trump.

Even if I have to drive a station wagon full of backup tapes myself.

There are countries that turn off the internet all the time. There's a only a few major Telcos that control all backbone infra. It could definitely happen

External connections? Probably.

Low-latency internal connections? Sure.

But when you can send IP packets over pigeons things get harder to disrupt.

Hence the station wagon.

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