> It's like a fire drill. The government wants to desensitize people. I think this analogy is good, except for 'desensitize' which should be 'normalize'. Fir

> It's like a fire drill. The government wants to desensitize people. I think this analogy is good, except for 'desensitize' which should be 'normalize'. Fire drills particularly are meant to normalize responding to a fire alarm going off (to make sure people know how to get out of buildings fast), but certainly aren't meant to desensitize people to fire alarms. Though in the case of internet shutdowns, desensitization and normalization are basically the same thing.