It’s pretty easy to stop businesses from accepting Bitcoin if you are the military industrial complex.

Black markets are hard to eliminate altogether but no real threat.

They'd have to shut down the internet. If you can generate an address, I can send you Bitcoin (the role of the internet is limited to broadcasting the transaction to the network).

So, no. Perhaps for a certain class of user—someone who depends solely on an exchange—they can stop them but ultimately, no. They'd be limited to showing up with guns.

It's not nearly as futile as it seems unless people buy into the propaganda.

Why would they need to shut down the internet to prevent business from accepting bitcoin? That makes no sense. A simple regulation or tax would do it.