Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  his troll farms also get cut off Why don’t we already have a hardware firewall for this?

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because generally where the West can extend their communications the people tend to provoke change for the better.

    Cutting Russia off entirely for the troll farms is locking Russians into a Russian curated echo chamber, or a least doing that to an even worse extent than Putin is already trying to do himself.

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• DMBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure it would result in the US internet being isolated from the rest of the worlds’

  except for most of North and South America.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    South America probably uses sea cables.

    Ref en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darién_Gap

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    • DMBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      cables which might need be only a few 100 km long and remain in territorial waters.

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      (thanks for the WP link. 🙂)

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      • False@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, fair

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