Donald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer says - eviltoast
Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
  • ashok36@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        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.