What if US banned private use of Internet because of national security (1 Viewer)

[JohnnyU]

What if the US decided that private use of the Internet was banned to the general public for national security reasons and still keep the necessary parts of it for business?

Is it possible?

 

[Josie Maran]

Lol violent uprising within 17 minutes. It'd be a bloodbath.

 

[mquinnjr]

What if the US decided that private use of the Internet was banned to the general public for national security reasons and still keep the necessary parts of it for business?

Is it possible?

I feel like it would cause another stock market collapse when every internet consumer-based business (Amazon, Google, etc. just off the top of my head) drops to the pink sheets almost immediately.

 

[coyote5]

Porn is business right?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I could see a lockdown for a huge emergency, but it would have to be on the banking system or electrical grid or something like that. Limiting communication methods in times of emergency is usually the opposite of what we want to do. But if it happened it would last hours, not days.

 

[mquinnjr]

Porn is business right?

We could take a trip into the wayback machine and re-discover magazines, i guess.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

fantasy football would go back to being a hobby of weirdos.

 

[SacramentoBob]

It would have the support of 40% of Americans. Which 40% depends on who is in power.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Lol violent uprising within 17 minutes. It'd be a bloodbath.

Within? More like for 17 minutes . then the out of shape masses would be out of breath

 

[Freelove]

I'm not sure I would ever know, since the Internet is where I get all my news.

 

[Foosball God]

Other countries can't even lock down Twitter, how would anyone shut down the internet for only personal use?

 

[timschochet]

Even if they wanted to do it, how could you enforce it?

 

[Chaka]

I imagine it would go something like this

 

[Tom Hagen]

I would be a lot more productive at work.

 

[arrow1]

workplace productivity would skyrocket

 

[fatness]

fantasy football would go back to being a hobby of weirdos.

fantasy football would go back to being a hobby of fewer weirdos

 

[SacramentoBob]

Other countries can't even lock down Twitter, how would anyone shut down the internet for only personal use?

Turning off the entire internet would be a lot easier than turning off just Twitter. Getting ISPs to agree with it for any length of time might be impossible.

It would depend on what "leaving it only on for business purposes" means. If that means Amazon.com is still up and I'm allowed to reach it for shopping, then it would be pretty impossible since the internet is still available to me and circumventing their security is possible. If it means that no residential internet is allowed, that would be a lot easier. That's basically what they do in North Korea. But then you might as well shut the entire internet down anyway (easy) since most of the business would be shut down since they can't reach consumers.

The only way you could really do the former would be to maintain a very strict whitelist of what business websites are allowed, and it would basically be nothing but big businesses with sway in the government. I guess that would be technically feasible.

 

[glock]

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Porn is business right?

On the positive side, it would free up one hand for other things.