HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoDonald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer sayswww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down173cross-posted to: asklemmy@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1334arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer sayswww.newsweek.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square88fedilinkcross-posted to: asklemmy@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42arrow-down1·7 months agoThis is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid. Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoIf there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.
minus-squarecosmicrookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoDid you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
minus-squareMadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoBrownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate. SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.
This is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid.
Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.
If there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.
Did you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
I think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.
Brownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate.
SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.