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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

14 Responses to “Shutting Off the Internet”

1. louis Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 4:09 pm

   Total Censorship and they brutally attack female reporters. Let’s give them another billion dollars in the name of democracy.

2. Transor Z Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 4:44 pm

   Anybody else recall the routing-table issue that caused a Comcast blackout in the Northeast Corridor on 11/28 – 11/29/2010?

   http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/widespread_inte.html

3. eren Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 5:45 pm

   Irony”

   Just as the Egyptian government recently forced the Internet to go dark, U.S. officials could flip the switch if the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation becomes law, say its critics.

   The bill — crafted by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Tom Carper, D-Del. — aims to defend the economic infrastructure from a cyberterrorist attack. But it has free-speech advocates and privacy experts howling over the prospect of a government agency quelling the communication of hundreds of millions of people.

   http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2011-02-15-kill-switch_N.htm

4. Jack Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 7:07 pm

   My glass is half full. 30 years ago Mubarak could shut down radio, TV and telephone in a New York minute. And keep it shut down with about 2000 troops and a tank or so.

   Now, anyone who tries it, and they all do, gets about 15 minutes of blackout. There’s too much stuff out there folks. Sure, it can be done. But the effort is enormous and the payoff slim.

   I think the information cat is out of the bag.

5. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 8:31 pm

   eren,

   y mas..

   http://epic.org/cgibin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=10&search=Protecting+Cyberspace+as+a+National+Asset

   “This article appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of ..”
   http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/human_rights_960420.article

   simply, I’d wish more people ‘got down’ w/ EFF y EPIC

6. wunsacon Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 11:04 pm

   How’s this for more irony (like Amazon’s Kindle/”1984″ error)?

   Confirmed: Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory Episodes Disappearing from DVRs
   http://www.prisonplanet.com/64336.html
   (HT: ZH commenter)

7. wunsacon Says:
   February 16th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

   Putting everything “into the cloud” is going to be a baaaad idea…

8. dsawy Says:
   February 17th, 2011 at 12:36 am

   Basically, they used BGP (an “exterior” routing protocol) to “withdraw” their routes.

9. Moss Says:
   February 17th, 2011 at 7:11 am

   Ah the beauty of the Domain Name System. (DNS)

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_lookup

10. Greg0658 Says:
    February 17th, 2011 at 8:03 am

    wuns – “Putting everything into the cloud is going to be a baaaad idea …” YEP ditto x1000 to the 10th
    even program basecode – just don’t know when IT starts doing different things differently
    … what a world if you can’t trust

    have ya seen this site:
    The Wayback Machine
    http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

11. Greg0658 Says:
    February 17th, 2011 at 8:12 am

    PBS ran with it last night too:
    How Did Egypt’s Government Halt Internet Access?
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/egypt2_02-16.html

    then later in the evening PBS ran an even more interesting:
    HACKERS
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/

12. Mark E Hoffer Says:
    February 17th, 2011 at 8:38 am

    wunsa-

    “Putting everything “into the cloud” is going to be a baaaad idea…”

    x2

13. constantnormal Says:
    February 17th, 2011 at 9:14 am

    this is also how those intrepid and clueless idiots at DHS removed 84,000 sites from the internet, when their target was about a dozen sites they claimed were engaging in child pornography and counterfeit product sales … due process, and all that.

14. constantnormal Says:
    February 17th, 2011 at 9:14 am

    oops … forgot the link …

    http://slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites