alt Hacker NewsThere is concern that the US may also go from chronic concerns to acute ones. Opponents of the government accuse it of serious crimes, and are already perceiving violence used to suppress dissent. The administration is not popular and may lose a lot of power in the upcoming election.
It's hard to imagine that shutting down the entire Internet would be taken well even by their supporters, but the point of the exercise is to prepare for the unimaginable.
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andix • 01/16/2026
> It's hard to imagine that shutting down the entire Internet would be taken well even by their supporters
Do you really think an authoritarian government cares about what people think? If there is a majority that supports them? They don't.
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Keeping things in perspective, no, there is no reasonable concern of this happening in the US in the near term.
The places where this happens, like Iran now, are in extremely different situations than anything in the US, or any other Western country.
That shouldn’t discourage people running meshes though.