He'd have his man-servant turn off the wifi on his phone. As long as the little symbol is gone, that means the internet no longer exists. Object Permanence isn't his strong suit.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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Hahahaha pretty reasonable
We're talking about a guy who said he could remotely de-classify documents by thinking real hard about them. Maybe he's under the impression that the internet will magically shut down when he says "turn yourself off!" out loud three times.
From a technical POV you can't. The US is too well connected with many subsea cables to Europe, South America, and Asia.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
In addition because the providers and cables are owned and operated by private companies the government would have a very hard time convincing telcos to do that.
Hell even internally you can't with every major city having 2 or 3 places where providers can connect with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Cloudflare, Akamai. Not to mention all the private peering locations.
From a political POV, make legislation that says registered telcos must turn off telecommunications equipment connected to non US locations or black hole non us traffic when entering the country when requested by a government.
From a technical POV, have the Armed Forces drop depth charges on those cables where they cross our borders. Sure there would be legal challenges, but the damage would already be done, probably for years based on how prosecuting him for January 6th has gone.
Ordering Amazon to turn off their servers (or more likely block all but government-approved connections) would result in about 70% of the internet going offline, even without cutting the cables. This can be accomplished with emergency powers.
Poison or shut down US-based root DNS servers; also accomplishable with emergency powers, but the easiest to route around.
Yes, this would all be a phenomenally stupid idea. New York City alone lost ten billion dollars per day while they were offline from Sandy. My job - hell, the entire company I work for - would evaporate instantly with no internet, and so would the livelihoods of most Americans. But this fucking guy doesn't care about any of that. Don't think the law will get in his way, don't think fear for the country's future will stop him. If the rest of the government allows him to be a candidate and he gets elected, despite the Fourteenth Amendment, the US is toast.
Probably fucking with BGP somehow but I don't really know beyond that
All paths lead to the singularity. There is no going back. Every stumbling block can be circumvented. But if he was determined, he'd probably declare war on the undersea cables that transfer the internet between countries, which is so easy to do we've had to stop sharks and pistol shrimp from doing it.
For many countries, it'd be as easy as cutting a few undersea cables. Two to three cut cables in 2008 brought down most of the Arab peninsula.
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/mediterranean-c/
As for the US and Europe, things are too interconnected for that to work. That said, the Internet as a whole is more centralized than you might expect from its history as a network that was supposed to be nuclear war proof.
I remember Mubarak managing to do so while he was in the process of being overthrown.
Egypts internet infrastructure of 2011 does not equal US internet infrastructure of 2025. The US is too well connected to feasibly turn off the internet. With egypt in 2011 they only had to shut down five ISPs and that shut off the internet in their country.
Man, Trump is living rent free in people's heads.
He has openly stated he wants to be a dictator, to dissolve Congress, and to rule for life. That type of tyrant is going to be on the minds of people.