Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    All of the companies that would instantly start losing a billion dollars per second would never allow this to happen. This isn’t some 3rd world country where Google and Apple and Facebook aren’t headquartered. The internet will always be happening here. They’re completely dependent on it and their customer’s constant access to it.

  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    Can we please stop multiplying every fart this guy is letting out? That stinks. Stop giving reach to this bullshit, that’s exactly what is intended by this provocative garbage.

  • gullible@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’m seeing a lot of Newsweek posted here and that is disheartening, to say the least. Newsweek is half a step from the dailymail’s level of bombastic misrepresentation. Continued use of Newsweek as a source is not ideal as a result.

  • Machinist3359@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    To be clear this is unlikely to be a long term nation wide internet blackout. Rather, e.g., turn off the Internet in a section of a city and send in troops to deal with a protest.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Stores and banks aren’t stocked or staffed for turning off e-commerce. Banks hate when customers walk in the door instead of doing everything online. And the stores woods have to find a drastically different equilibrium without internet advertising or orders. It would be absolute chaos.