They have to know the names of everyone whose phones they want to turn off. They don't have it. Also, this would work once. After that, everyone in such a situation would put their phone in airplane mode when they thing The Man might be out for them, and turn on Wifi to upload the video with no risk of bricking.

It's easier to just shoot everyone holding a phone and claim it looked like a gun.

But it's not an en masse tool. How do you wipe a crowd's phones when the code needs to be transmitted by the carrier to a specific phone, identified by account number (derivable by name)? They'd need to shut down the tower, and physically round up the people to stop them. And the phones are immune to bricking if you put them in airplane mode and turn on wifi. You can still connect to the cloud, and upload videos, but the kill code needs to go over the cell network, so they can't kill it.

Also, this means that the stolen phones can be used as a small tablet without being locked out.

How would they know the person had it? This would only work once. After that, everyone would know that if you catch The Man doing something, you put your phone in airplane mode, then turn on wifi. You can upload it then and are immune to carrier bricking signals.

When you see everything hitting the fan, you put your phone in flight mode, and turn on WiFi. From how I've seen it described, you'll be 100% immune to the government bricking ability, and you only need a hotspot to get the video out.

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They don't cause "global" disaters, only local, and they have nothing on that list you gave that's a "natural disaster" like weather or earthquake.

Oh, so it's for the ISP's broken business model that they are screwing everyone? Even with a monopoly guaranteed in law, and government funding, they are more expensive than municipal fiber.

Let me know how your IT can remote in from home without having an Internet connection at some point. Remoting in is nearly a requirement of all information systems.

I thought the implication was that http://slashdot.org/~itzdandy is a nuke shill.

T1 is dead end. The place I worked T1, there wasn't a single manager in the place that had ever worked T1. Being one of the best they had, when I put in my notice, they offered me a "promotion" that came with lower pay. If that's progress in T1, I was glad I did it only once, and only 9 months.

They will give you the worst shifts, and poor reviews (yes, including up to "firing") for not performing to their satisfaction.

Never say no, never say yes. Just remain silent. Or non commital non-rejections, like "I understand." Drag it out for hours. They'll never hang up.

Why is the "I" in there? If Netflix is doing it, then it's a private network, not unlike an '80s frame relay network (just faster). They aren't providing "Internet". They are providing a video service.

By your logic, a cable TV network (with no data services) is an ISP because they are running a backbone and providing content.

Direct point-to-point links have no demands for other content. It's when you buy from an ISP who determines that they will not deliver part of the Internet they don't like. I've bought leased fibre services in many places, and nobdy has ever asked to put their content on it. The users have already paid someone for access to that Netflix stream, but that access provider is trying to extort additional profit from content providers.

Old style TV takes about as much as a single Netflix stream. So for every channel canceled, they can support one more Netflix user. That doesn't sound like the channels are such a waste.