Is there any real defense to the government shutting the Internet off on you?
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if it is targeted then yes, have redundant connections
anon https://silent.link data esim is a solid option
if it is for the whole population, more difficult, starlink will sometimes still work unless elon is complicit in the action
in that case, the only real fallback is mesh, which is hard to scale
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It's the only mesh that can scale
People of the free world, letās mesh up
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I'd say maybe StarLink and other satellite-based services, however I don't know how free and unbiased they could stay once a hypothetical world government forcibly took control of it.
NO not in "any country" during wartime.
Whatās the context behind the question?
In nearly all situations governmentās would not want to do this as it would disincentivize productivity and economic activity across the population - so while they may āgainā the ability to silence ādissentā during wartime - we must also consider what they would āloseā in doing so.
Mesh if youāre in a population-dense area, public access (libraries, etc), and things like Blockstream satellite or amateur radio if youāre desperate. But as others have said, if your government (or someone elseās (war?)) is turning off your internet you probably have bigger problems.
I should add that the solution to most of those bigger problems is going to be: gun.
guns
Iād just go be a mountain man if that happened to me
Oh yeah? How would you be able to get to "the mountains" if no one has GPS
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Not any REAL defense. Small scale? Yes. But large populations? No.
The #1 priority of the state is to protect the state and the power it holds at all cost. The wellbeing of the populace is way down on the list. If shutting off the internet aligns with priority #1 it can and will happen if necessary.
Satellite connection with a foreign provider. Or store and forward networks a la FIDONet (or really, Nostr with relays that get more creative than TCP/IP...).
But yea, you do lose a lot of functionality even if you can save some.
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