Is it possible for any country to shut down its own internet access for non-business users indefinitely?

ExFoedere

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Essentially only the residential areas affected. We have seen what overexposure of internet does to people of all ages. Sometimes i think the internet isn't really made for the common man to use long term, only made for commercial use, computer systems etc.
Interested to see a possible future where internet is not so accessible to the general population if it can even be done.
 
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No. If it were possible to 100% prevent illegal goods from entering a country, black markets wouldn't exist. What a country can do is make it extremely difficult to access, so difficult it's not really worth the trouble.
 
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Of course not, it is completely unfeasible for the government to prevent people from hunting or growing their own internet, they'd have to go door to door with internet-sniffing dogs to enforce this on an individual level.
 
Even North Korea, which tries to do exactly this, has a massive "problem" with what few citizens have access to a computer getting access to the wider internet (or at least the Chinese one) through VPN's. Its just another black market.
 
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The only solution is to return administration of internet protocols to the military and make it a federal offense for civilians to browse the World Wide Web.
 
North Korea manages it, but you would need to take away any wireless tech and look out for cable theft all the time.
 
Black market starlink?
Reverting to text based communication (Twitter originally let you tweet via SMS hence the old character limit)
Modems
Neighborhood mesh networks
Education system will go to complete shit without internet access too

The technology is out there so unless you have complete idiots in the entire population some will figure out a way
 
They could only allow certain VPN connections access to the Internet. Almost every Internet based job I've ever worked at forces its employees to use a VPN so the mindsetis already there. Then only allow businesses to pay for said vpn. That immidetely filters out most people. Businesses don't really need wifi so wifi would just be disabled completly to prevent theft from over the airwaves. It could even be directly blocked by putting a scrambler in the area so even if theres a wifi leak it will be unusable. Every device has a unique ID and they will all be registered with the ISP. If someone is using the Internet but their device isn't on the list their connection gets blocked and probally reported to the business and or police. This is done at the ISP level instead of router level to prevent people from splicing into the line. Force devices using your connection to have geolocation enabled so their exact location is known. If they aren't inside the registered business location then block them. Force all devices to be within a certain distance of the router to doubly ensure nothing sketchy is going on.

I don't know know much about the Internet (and thus probally messed up some terms) but I think that sounds feasible and doesn't require any major infastructure changes. It all uses stuff that already exists. It's not bullet proof but you'd have to be a straight up criminal to get past all that.

Also, in this doom and gloom future scenario Interent equipment probally wont be accessible to the common man anymore. So you won't be able to buy shit on Amazon and stuff like starlink wont really have a reason to exist. So our ability to access the Interent will rapidly diminish due to a lack of available tools / equipment even if we have the ability to hack into it. They won't sell nic cards anymore to non-businsses and computers won't come with ethernet slots.
 
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Annoying Orange said:
Internet is a very valuable tool if used right. Instead of banning internet altogether, ban porn, gambling and online gaming. And no social media for children under 16.
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that would be even more difficult than trying to enforce a little i internet on everyone in a country.
 
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Even North Korea, which tries to do exactly this, has a massive "problem" with what few citizens have access to a computer getting access to the wider internet (or at least the Chinese one) through VPN's. Its just another black market.
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Nobody has the Internet in North Korea. What they have instead is an intranet which looking it up is called "Kwangmyong". No more than a few thousand people in North Korea are authorized to access the Internet (pretty much just high-level politicians/bureaucrats, certain military units, and grad students in some fields). They legally cannot sell the hardware required to anyone beside certain institutions or foreigners. It clearly works in North Korea, since citizens who get punished for accessing foreign media and ideologies get physical copies smuggled in, not downloaded off the web.
 
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