Been thinking about it a lot, and how would people be able to communicate with each other if the forces of capital (huge telecom conglomerates) just decided to shut down and become dormant? Capitalism has such a stranglehold on society that we'd be absolutely fucked. What about our electrical grids? And to add onto that, you're probably facing the US military in addition to the militaries of all its allies
People forget how much infrastructure for emergency services and crisis management is maintained by volunteers. In my county if shit were to hit the fan, I know some ham radio operators who have their house rigged up to a generator and handle a range of emergency communications for the whole county.
This sort of thing could be set up for revolutionaries as well. But that means labor to set it up and maintain it. It’d be sweet if a group of revolutionary techies could get a grant to install a bunch of rural broadband and then just… maintain access to those lines. There’s also some neat mesh network collectives in bigger cities. They try and do stuff like provide free WiFi to apartment complexes