Two weeks later, we may have finally gotten an answer to that question…at least if we look in between the lines. Standard Operating Procedure 303 (SOP303) is the federal government's ‘kill switch policy'. Once called ‘conspiracy theory' by government trolls and the uninformed, the government kill switch program is very real…conspiracy theory no longer, and it's now going before the US Supreme Court.
Map of Outages Below the Fold
Phi Beta Iota: The absolute fastest way to drive everyone into the streets to burn tires and offer the angry white person depiction of the Watts Riots, is to kill the Internet and cell phones. With no phones and no computers, the USG will quickly produce the American Spring. On a more selective basis — a bit more troubling — this is how you prevent citizens from filming and broadcasting government atrocities that the captive media can be relied upon to cover up. This story may accelerate the emergence of SharkNet and other mesh networks that are able to work around such control measures. This is probably un-Constitutional in some manner.
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