Will the last one out please turn off the internet

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BBC News - Should Obama's 'internet kill switch' power be curbed?

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Can you imagine the panic if, for example, the US govt ordered the central DNS servers to be taken down?

 

It'd effectively be the end of the web as we know it, as countries would quickly put in place their own systems and there'd be segmentation of the internet.