Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations
by MichaelZuo on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:32PM
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> Interrupting all signals that are in use by commercial companies, is still ultimately relying on commercial infrastructure, though?
No, government owned cell towers, military owned cell towers, etc., also send out the signal, so even if every commercially owned cell tower suddenly vanished most cities will still be covered by enough signal strength for a few hundred bytes of text.
Yes, signal usage is a bit easier to jump on top of as the government regulates those uses of signals. There really isn't a way to do that on the internet. Best they can have is to regulate that Twitter has to give them unlimited limits in emergency cases. Which, yes, they should do.
This will annoy a ton of "free market" folks, as it will almost certainly make it harder to enter the market as a competitor. Will look a lot like regulatory capture, all told.