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This is a strawman. They can (and will) switch off individual accounts from the US if the government asks them, and this has been demonstrated earlier this yea
by whstl 11mo ago
This is a strawman.
They can (and will) switch off individual accounts from the US if the government asks them, and this has been demonstrated earlier this year.
No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the ability to kill individual accounts, and being in a jurisdiction that demands accounts to be disabled from time to time is equivalent to having such a thing.
Also: Remember that several US organizations, including Github, have disabled thousands of accounts from eg Iran in the past is such maneuvers.
So: definitely feasible and has definitely happened in the past, with or without the mythical kill switch you talk of.
- crazygringo 11mo agoIt's not a strawman. > No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the ability to kill individual accounts, and being in a jurisdiction that demands accounts to be disabled from time to time is equivalent to having such a thing. That's preposterous. Disabling a couple of online accounts, versus disabling the computers of an entire nation, you think are the same thing? I don't understand how you can make that argument in good faith. What are you even trying to achieve?
- whstl 11mo agoI am not trying to achieve anything. I just don't agree with you, or with your framing that this is "conspiracy thinking" from other posters. That's it.