What would happen if US government blocked social media sites?

[tubby_mcgee 686]

What kind of reaction/fallout would we have?

blocked social media

[wiffleball 4,640]

I'd be thrilled.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,636]

Back to reading books and newspapers? 

[Voltaire 4,558]

I don't use Facebook and Twitter but I'd miss FFToday.... for a while... then maybe a week or two later I'd come to my senses and realize how awful we are.

[wiffleball 4,640]

If there is a way to shield hospitals, I'd be all over detonating emps in this country.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

The same thing that happens when china does it. VPN sales skyrocket.

So far, the internet has always found away around the powers that be. 

[wiffleball 4,640]

What if we just created internment camps for so-called social media influencers?

[JustinCharge 2,397]

Your scenario is what is known as an "internet kill switch" scenario and has been discussed before.  What happens if the government shuts the internet down?  What they are doing is creating what is known as the Hinternet.  The Hinternet is "internet over HAM radio".  They've actually set this up.  If the internet is lost, people can switch over the HAM radio frequencies and use it as a backup internet.

 

There is something called AirChat that can provide this functionality.  What you do is set up on 2m or 70cm bands which are line of slight and then set up a network that way because its pretty hard for authorities to find.

[RLLD 3,455]

1 hour ago, riversco said:

Your scenario is what is known as an "internet kill switch" scenario and has been discussed before.  What happens if the government shuts the internet down?  What they are doing is creating what is known as the Hinternet.  The Hinternet is "internet over HAM radio".  They've actually set this up.  If the internet is lost, people can switch over the HAM radio frequencies and use it as a backup internet.

 

There is something called AirChat that can provide this functionality.  What you do is set up on 2m or 70cm bands which are line of slight and then set up a network that way because its pretty hard for authorities to find.

I was not aware of this, that is fascinating....

[avoiding injuries 1,220]

My parents would see less photos of their grandkids. 

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

I hope not...then my fishing holes would be packed...and my golf courses full.

[Cruzer 1,992]

 The President would short circuit and stroke out.

[dain11279 928]

I'd miss Twitter, I do use it all the time. I don't have Facebook or anything else. Oh, I stalk hot chicks on Instagram too.

[Cruzer 1,992]

6 minutes ago, dain11279 said:

Oh, I stalk hot chicks on Instagram too.

I have a friend that does too...

[iam90sbaby 2,125]

43 minutes ago, Cruzer said:

 The President would short circuit and stroke out.

Hahahaha so funny man, you seriously just owned him

 

my attempt at leftist talk 

[Reality 2,710]

1 hour ago, dain11279 said:

I'd miss Twitter, I do use it all the time. I don't have Facebook or anything else. Oh, I stalk hot chicks on Instagram too.

Same.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

The Kardashians couldn't afford to get any more plastic surgery?

[supermike80 1,285]

1 hour ago, Cruzer said:

I have a friend that does too...

I must have the same friend.....

 

He likes Paige Spiranac for some strange reason

[dain11279 928]

5 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

I must have the same friend.....

 

He likes Paige Spiranac for some strange reason

This guy gets it

 

She is perfection

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

17 hours ago, wiffleball said:

I'd be thrilled.

This

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

7 hours ago, avoiding injuries said:

My parents would see less photos of their grandkids. 

You can still email them or send them through text.