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I think the kill switch is intended for a martial law scenario, where lawsuits and the like will be irrelevant.

• jrockway 18y ago
  I assume people will still know how to build their own radios, however.
  • ryanwaggoner 18y ago
    Haha...this really made me laugh. Honestly, if there were no web access, how many people in the US could build their own radio?
  • asciilifeform 18y ago
    The time to build (a wireless-mesh replacement for the Internet, sets of encrypted radios, or for that matter, any subversive technology) is now, rather than when martial law is declared - and we are shipped off to the camps before our soldering irons can warm up. How many people even own dead-tree versions of essential engineering references? Most people have abandoned even dictionaries in favor of the web. We have grown utterly dependent on a rather surprisingly fragile medium with plenty of government tentacles wriggling in assorted orifices.