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Yeah but on one hand you hold the possibility of peace and in the other rampant profiteering.

For an absolute scumbag the choice is obvious, no?

This was exactly what came to mind when I read the post.

All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.

The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.

It’d be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.

For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.

I’ve been to the US twice since 9/11 and neither time was I asked for my phone. Not to say it didn’t happen before now. It happens in many countries if they decide they have even a tiny bit of suspicion.

But, frankly right now I would not travel to the USA for any reason.

Pretty sure I can see a tattoo on that dinosaur!

I used my own content controls to block reddit for a year. Well, a bit longer so far.