I consider sentience is a prerequisite of intelligence, with one test of sentience being able to make trust judgements.

John Deere tractors drives themselves out the door to avoid license compliance problems.

That is a very extreme position. You judging billions of people as worthless based on the actions of dozens of them.

You would make it even harder for the citizens of those countries to access a diversity of viewpoints, as retaliation for a government funded news site posting covid misinformation.

By the Way, in Australia Murdock owned Sky News was suspended for the same thing, should News Corp be cut off from the internet as well ?

There should be a law that obligates companies to ensure firmware can operate in a fit-for-purpose manner for the lifetime of the physical device.

If firmware because faulty, the obligation should be on the manufacturer to provide repairs, or the means to repair the device.

Similar to car air-bag recalls in recent years, or other physical goods that are assumed safe.

Zombie IoT devices can become a threat to the internet, and everything the depends on it.

Exactly, it would great of journalists and law enforcement had enough understanding of technology to understand the internet cant resolve to the biological level.

And even if it could determine an actual human (not a bot or relay) was using a specific computer, how do they determine the nationality of that individual as opposed to the country they reside in.

Law enforcement are stupid idiots unfortunately.

This was a thing last decade, that guy should get some Venture capital, for betting !!!

From Discovery channel in 2010,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Transmission lines can, in effect 'time shift' solar generation so electricity generated from solar is used after the sun goes down.

Example could be connecting the West coast of Australia to the East cost grid, which is a 3h time difference, so strong solar levels from the West coast available on the east coast in the evening.

A similar thing could be done between Australian and NZ.

Read what i said, and think about your response, is it possible you have an anger management disorder ?

But the satellites dont communicate directly with your router AFAIK, there still needs to be base stations and terrestrial backhaul to user.

There will be other significant costs.

It will be a useful addition to internet accessibility, but there is no long term advantage in providing services for fixed locations via satellite, other than redundancy to backhaul interruptions.

Nobody has ever come up with a satisfactory explained of how these "experts" determine the nationality of a person typing on a keyboard.

At best they can track it to a physical location of the source, but even then they would need to have a way to break TOR.

Its all guess work beyond the network stack.

Its obvious misinformation.

Realize that with all the bad things you say about Russia, there is still more justice there than in the US

And how did they obtain these secret visitor logs ?

They must be teh haxors !!! (surely not a leak)

The guardian used to be a reputable media outlet, now they collaborate with sources hostile to society to disseminate propaganda.

Australian government has nothing to do with this cable which is due for completion in 2022

Australian government blocked Huawei from a previous cable to be completed in 2020 due to security concerns about equipment at Sydney landing point (rightly or wrongly), but they paid A$100m to fund the cable themselves (CSCS).

The Coral Sea Cable System (CSCS), being funded largely by Australian Government is replacing the build Huawei was initially planning on building. CSCS is being built by Vocus/Alcatel.
https://www.coralseacablesyste...
https://www.submarinecablemap....

This new cable also has branches to PNG/Solomons (and everywhere else), its being pushed by the same guy who did Hawaiki, which is AU-NZ-US
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...

Except we dont, its always locked down by some other means.

e.g. How many phones use open source, how many have full source available and can be re-flashed ?