Re: [hrpc] Censorship

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

On 11.03.22 19:41, Paul Wouters wrote:
> The internet is infrastructure. It must always be there and when broken must be fixed. Punishing citizens for their government actions by crippling infrastructure is always wrong.

Infrastructure isn't a magic word and the Internet being a network of 
networks, you can't speak quite so broadly.  And you have to show your 
homework when making statements, especially in a research group.

So let me help you:

  * Disrupting Internet connectivity within a region can hamper other
    civilian infrastructure, including traffic systems, healthcare
    services, and food distribution services.  It may hamper education
    during COVID, and actually cause the disease's spread by encouraging
    direct F2F communications.  It can hamper transportation
    infrastructure such as Taxi services, and the ability to book
    transit.  It can disrupt basic voice communications in as much as
    voice runs over the Internet.
  * The counter-measures that governments are likely to take may cause
    routing ambiguities, break secure DNS.

Note- there is little preventing the first bullet from happening after 
an extended period of time if international sanctions prevent hardware 
replacement and servicing of the infrastructure.

Eliot

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