Sounds silly of course, and it is silly. But I thought it would be interesting to think it through. And with multiple minds.
How do you go about “turning off the internet” for a particular country? Because this is being attributed to Trump, I’m presuming that “turn off the internet” could mean a number of things.
Mess with DNS? Disable infrastructure? Buy out telecom?
Let’s say we’re committed to this task, how do we go about it? Let’s hear the crazy ideas
Setting aside that making sense of things Trump suggests is pointless: one method would be a blanket order that telecom providers turn off access in a targeted area. I expect in America some portion of people would still figure out how to get connectivity, but cutting off 80% of internet access would still be very disruptive.
This is where I was leaning when thinking about it initially. It would almost have to be a non-technical solution. I’m guessing he’s more of an “internet for me, but not for thee” kind of turn-off-the-internet guy so infrastructure and service would need to operate on some level