So maybe that dual power needs to involve some dual infrastructure, yeah?

Start a mutual aid group who fronts as a tech support collective and gradually install mesh routers and nextcloud instances throughout your neighborhood to make it redundant in case of internet “outages”

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The article this is from (about the Bush Administration updating the country's How-To Guide for National Martial Law) doss not mention the existence of an internet kill switch; only theorizing that the president would have legal authority to shut down the internet in an "emergency." It's likely that the capability for this has been seriously explored, but who knows if this is real and practical or if it's as successful as the F-35.

    Besides that, why would the feds want to shut off internet access? The internet keeps a lot of people out of real-world trouble and is an excellent channel for propaganda. It's also (along with the services it facilitates) absolutely key to maintaining a facade of normalcy. And of course you can moderate away the most radical conversations as they pop up on major platforms, then go after people who tell on themselves individually.

    • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Honestly, I’m a proponent in general of establishing local internet collectives so the specifics of this weren’t super important to me as I was posting this, but these are good points. I think any sort of kill switches would be localized and carried out by local PDs using military surplus equipment, as someone else in the thread pointed out

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        2 years ago

        establishing local internet collectives

        Have you read the insane shit that people post on "local internet collectives" like on nextdoor?

        • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Nextdoor literally gamifies snitching and has no moderation. Preventing bigotry and exclusion amongst a reactionary populace is hard, but it’s something that union organizers deal with all the time. It’s not impossible.

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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            2 years ago

            Union organizers and stewards dealing with backwards coworkers to get them on the same page of fighting for their own benefit through collective barganing ≠ telling the dipshit in the next block over he should be thrown in a work camp for saying we should throw the 'Mexican' refugees in industrial ovens at the border.

            • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
              hexagon
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              2 years ago

              Yeah I suppose living on the same street isn’t the same amount of interdependence as working together is

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          2 years ago

          not administered locally nor collectively. literally a corporate platform advertised for use by the propertied middle class. if you have zero faith that your neighbors can ever be anything but reactionary, you either gotta move out of Langley, or you have no theory of radical change.

          anyway have you read the insane shit that people post on the corporate internet? including nexdoor?