Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
    • ashok36@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year 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.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      If there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.