I'm not comfortable with the connotation that "regime" brings, but I had the same thought as you. This technology and equipment will find itself in the hands o

I'm not comfortable with the connotation that "regime" brings, but I had the same thought as you. This technology and equipment will find itself in the hands of Americans if the US government tries to shutdown the Internet Mubarak-style. However, I think the difference is that, in America, I could walk down to Best Buy and build a reasonably effective "alternative Internet" today, at low cost.