Donald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer says
Donald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer says
Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
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Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
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Most of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote.
Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS.
But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.
If there's a civil war in the U.S., they'll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They're tyrants. They don't care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.
Did you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
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I think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don't think South Africa has that power.