What if Trump became president and did shut down the internet?

[Red Squirrel]

This is more for discussion sake, but let's say it really did happen. How would the rest of the world be able to fix the internet, would they just run some under sea cables to reconnect to each other? Or are there already links between each country that don't go through the US? Obviously, I don't think the US would have jurisdiction to shut it down world wide, so after they shut down within the country, the rest of the world would still have internet but just see it as a HUGE outage where many services don't work as most things are hosted in US data centres.

What about stuff like DNS or IP assignment? From what I understand the organizations like ICANN that manage that stuff are US based and those databases would be offline. Would ISPs from around the world just work together to rebuild this data and find another way of managing it?

It would almost be interesting to see the fallout, just to see how it is handled.

I really can't see it happening though, imagine all the corporations that would be affected by this. This is more of a "what if" scenario.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Mesh Network.

 

[John Connor]

I think you're over looking this, OP. But Yeah, P&N is over there --->

 

[Red Squirrel]

Mesh Network.

Yeah I can see that definitely happening. There is already a project going on that I've been wanting to check out, though it's mostly overlaid on the existing internet but meant to also work stand alone.

https://hyperboria.net/

They might be using the same tech in that article actually.

I think this is needed either way, due to the internet always being threatened by government's claws.

 

[SKORPI0]

Wikipedia --- Internet Kill Switch

 

[A Casual Fitz]

No chance, but say it happened I'd be on board for a full internet outage for everyone. It'd be interesting.

 

[MongGrel]

I think you're over looking this, OP. But Yeah, P&N is over there --->

Go drink more coffee additive like it's a real drink dude.



Even if Trump was elected, he just could not randomly shut down the internet. Would be as ridiculous as most things he proposes to do.

 

[JamesV]

If Trump becomes president, I'm moving to Haiti or Somalia. At worst, which is likely considering people still think he's in the running - other republicans will have to take part of his insane ramblings as their own ticket.

I bet Trump is even being paid by the republican party. He will drop out late and give any of their real candidates a push by them being against whatever he says. I bet he will make millions off this (what he does, no?).

 

[John Connor]

Go drink more coffee additive like it's a real drink dude.



Even if Trump was elected, he just could not randomly shut down the internet. Would be as ridiculous as most things he proposes to do.

You just can't stop quoting me, can you?

 

[KeithP]

What if Trump became president and did shut down the internet?

Well, he hasn't proposed such a course of action so your question seems rather pointless.

-KeithP

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Why would a Canuck care about what Trump would do? Red, we may just move next door to you.

 

[MongGrel]

You just can't stop quoting me, can you?

You just quoted me.

What's the problem there, is typically what most people do when responding to someone.

 

[Ichinisan]

trumpcount++

 

[Newbian]

Make a backup like I do:

 

[ctbaars]

We would talk to each other. (Face to face, phone)
We'd get work done.
I'm old enough to remember that the internet is not as important you think.
Email is far more important. (It can be argued that you can have email without internet.)

 

[ultimatebob]

The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war. Even if the entire country disappeared because the Donald decides to start World War III, it would still be able to route though the remaining infrastructure.

 

[waggy]

what pointless discussion. how about something in the realm of possibility. like klin getting a girlfriend or norse getting a job.

 

[BUTCH1]

Well, he hasn't proposed such a course of action so your question seems rather pointless.

-KeithP

Yea, moron question=moron OP.

 

[KLin]

what pointless discussion. how about something in the realm of possibility. like klin getting a girlfriend or norse getting a job.

Why don't you go jump off a cliff, fuckin bears fan.

 

[waggy]

what pointless discussion. how about something in the realm of possibility. like klin getting a girlfriend or norse getting a job.

wait!

I GOT a great idea! Norse can get a job as Klin's Girlfriend!

 

[IGBT]

you'd actually have to go outside into the world..possibly for the first time.

 

[BoomerD]

wait!

I GOT a great idea! Norse can get a job as Klin's Girlfriend!

Dude...I don't think even Klin is that desperate...but...maybe Norse could woo him with soft wikipedia links...

 

[Phokus]

You don't mess with a man's porn gateway

 

[shortylickens]

You don't mess with a man's porn gateway

Am I the only person here that kept his DVD's from the 90's?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

See all the wires that connect countries that aren't the US?

South America might have a rough time of things, but Eurasia and the Pacific are their own thing. Unplug everything in North America and it would be a much smaller internet, but it would still exist.

It used to be that only the US had top-level domain servers, but they've been distributed worldwide for a long time now.