100% uptime cannot be guaranteed

No internet also means cell phones are down.

No credit cards at grocery stores

No synchronized inventory systems

Yep

Banks can't check your balance

it's like after a hurricane

Worse than that

2 of them -_-

I lived through Harvey.

Irma and Maria

Ah, Florida man?

No.

Just referring to it then?

PR

... Oh.

Yeah, that's a better example, actually.

But that, worldwide...

I can imagine

This is now a Deus Ex thread

And that's just internet.

We didn't even take away electricity

I recall once, that supposedly china turned "off" their routers and there was a major internet blackout

thanks

typos!

Unless you want us to read that in a Hispanic affectation

regulation and centralized control should be exercised in matters that are too cumbersome or pervasive for local control. I think a currency system and possibly the internet fit under these circumstances

I can agree

But absolute transparency is needed for those matters.

also defense and public maintenance like roadways. other than that, it should be local

yes, complete transparency

with possible exception for defense matters that are deemed temporarily too sensitive

I don't think that "the internet" can be maintained from a centralized source. The physical layer, sure, but not much beyond that

it kinda falls under public maintenance for me, but I mean more like regulation of forums being constitutional rather than privatized

considering the internet is more and more a public space than a private one

you can totally privatize the shit out of making sure it stays up and running, just like how cities and states contract out to private companies for construction

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You're going to need an excessively large government to be able to ensure that forums are following the constitution, to say nothing of jurisdiction

not necessarily, the system we have already has provisions that COULD allow for it

a lot of our internet usage is under the watchful eye of the big boys, right? google and facebook

make them liable for breaches of rights