To: SeekAndFind
I worry more about the Universal Internet ID than I do a shutdown. Kill the internet: kill the economy: kill the tax revenue golden goose.
Still, backup comms isn’t a bad idea. Just because it’s stupid or harmful, even to themselves, doesn’t mean the govt won’t do it.
6 posted on
01/31/2011 8:07:54 AM PST by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: Free Vulcan
...Universal Internet ID than I do a shutdown.Give the government time. They will get around to both of them.
9 posted on
01/31/2011 8:36:50 AM PST by
MichiganConservative
(Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
To: Free Vulcan
Kill the internet: kill the economy: kill the tax revenue golden goose.
Exactly. Look at how many businesses depend on the Internet for various reasons.
If the government did hit an OFF switch, the uproar from the Internet users (100 million nerds) and thousands of businesses would send politicians in retirement in off-shore vacation spots.
A shutdown of a single day would cause such economic upheavel that it would would take weeks to recover.
12 posted on
01/31/2011 8:48:03 AM PST by
TomGuy
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