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originally posted by: mmirror
They have the off switch for the internet. If this is so than they have other means to control the internet. They control what you view and also interfer with what you post. They no doubt have people online searching through what people upload and post. Whether that be youtube or forums. They are watching and blocking things depending on their objectives.
What is happening is that sites government disapproves of are being choked by paid people whose job is to try and turn the site mainstream which of course is impossible so the people just leave one by one.
Every single ISP in North America can be ordered to shut down temporarily.
It doesn't matter that Chinese and Russians and Europeans are still playing Crush on their PDA and laptops.
For all intents and purposes Internet would be shut down for citizens of US, Canada and even Mexico.
Even mainstream media talked about Obama getting Internet shut down switch operational for emergencies, this was few years ago.
As usual Americans are quite infamous for problems with long term memory.
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
I'm not American.
~Tenth
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Azureblue
It's not the NSA that does this, but Google. If you piss them off, they will bury search results for your website to like the 50th page.
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
originally posted by: mmirror
They have the off switch for the internet. If this is so than they have other means to control the internet. They control what you view and also interfer with what you post. They no doubt have people online searching through what people upload and post. Whether that be youtube or forums. They are watching and blocking things depending on their objectives.
No they don't.
There is no 'internet off switch'.
It's not physically possible. The internet doesn't all come from one single source, nor is it all managed at a single source. No one single organization could 'shut off' the internet.
That would require a conglomerate of hundreds if not thousands of businesses.
~Tenth
Thomas Drake is a former NSA senior executive who pulled an Edward Snowden back in 2006 and revealed some of the agency's secrets. He was consequentially prosecuted under the Espionage Act, but that hasn't scared him away from talking to the press about the recent NSA revelations. FAIRVIEW, he says, is an umbrella program for upstream data collection that's not covered by PRISM. "Upstream means you get inside the system before it’s in the Internet—in its pure form," Drake told the Daily Dot recently. And about the name, "It's just a name," he said, "that at the highest level means to own the internet."
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: ISawItFirst
They aren't one and the same. There may be a lot of behind the scenes collusion (and I'm not denying there is either), but just because that is the case doesn't mean that Google is an extension of the government or anything. Google stands up to the government on things as well.
I'm somewhat surprised that you would make these statements given what's been revealed by credible whistleblowers. NSA intercepts and interdicts all the major ISPs and the optical lines off the continent. The want to own the internet. No one can stop them.