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If there was a pandemic coming, how would we know?
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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. 1.So they spent millions preparing for something that won't happen? Maybe. Polticians piss money like crazy. Maybe they're listening to experts who don't know what they're talking about. Maybe all the historians are in cahoots with them. Medical staff and educators too. 2. Yep, we could run telegraph wires. If we have power. Military field phones have self-crank generators. There's that. Not too many around. We could wire up some from army surplus. Wrote about that in the last month. Not any Internet browsing over that though. 3. So are you not going to even admit that I was right about their plans about IP blocking, bandwidth reduction, lack of domain refferal in the face of the GAO report? Are you that kind of person that won't admit to be wrong when someone provides you with evidence, when you discounted their statements as to their veracity. Seem weak and the actions of a real lightweight. 1) Yep....plenty of ways they waste cash....and they don't care. It lines someones pockets. They don't care....and yes....the internal corruption is malignant so all industries have at least SOME people who are part of that "mafia" 2) Maybe telegraph, but those are easily spotted and cut. It would be easier to use the BBS scenario I mentioned or HAM digital networks, and/or phone systems with existing lines for data transfer. Lots of ways. Humans are very inventive when they need to be. Necessity is the mother of invention. 3) Nothing to admit about you being right really. No offense. They COULD do many things....but shutting down the internet over a pandemic is unlikely. It's more likely they do something like China does with it's citizens in blocking certain websites....but there are numerous ways around that too. CAN they block it....SURE.....but it won't be done by LEGAL Constitutional means. Overall I think we are on the same page but I don't agree with you about what is a trigger point for that happening.
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