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A comment on Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill switch' bill. Parent comment

Re:Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill switch' ... by InclinedPlane on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:20PM (#2173109)
The internet is a global internetwork, a network of networks, as it were. That's where the name comes from.

Partitioning the internet is isomorphic to destroying the internet.

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Re:Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill switch' ... by amalcon on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:26PM (#2173270)
Would you say that the Internet is "destroyed" whenever there's an earthquake or something that cuts trans-Atlantic cables? Would you say that it's "destroyed" by China's filtering?
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