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If there was a pandemic coming, how would we know?
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Useless Cookie Eater |
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Limiting bandwith during a Pandemic: [ link to www.techrepublic.com] Direct GAO link discussing the need: [ link to www.gao.gov] I don't think we can include Reuters links but they had one titled SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says on Oct 26, 2009 which details this issue. You can look it up yourself. It discusses blocking websites during a pandemic to assist bandwidth for government use or for critical infrastucture. As such many sites like this one, you'd have difficulty getting to it. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would leave it up to the discretion of the President to decide on shutting down the Internet during a crisis which is entirely up to his discretion. Do you need more links? There's definitely more. GAO-10-8 listed above discusses using the Internet during a Pandemic as a means of education in case schools are closed. That information is within the link above. Question for Useless Cookie Eater, am I still illogical and nonsensical now that I've demonstrated that the US government has specifically considered doing precisely what I stated?Yes. 1) Because LOTS of things are CONSIDERED that will never happen. 2) Again, even if the government were to go rogue and ignore the rule of law, people will find other ways to communicate as I noted earlier. 3) If they do shut down the internet, that would only be a symptom of a larger problem going on....and it is highly probable that all hell has already broken loose.....and it won't be over a pandemic.
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