Ehh, Yes and no. Yes they can shut the internet off, but they can also jam radio waves.
The only plus is that with the radio wave jamming they would have to spend a lot of money to accomplish that, whereas, they can just ask the three main companies who own the internet backbones to shut them down.
Agreed. It seems like broadband jamming over a wide geographic area is practically impossible, especially if the HAMs started to disregard their legal band allocations in a breakdown scenario.
Of course, when not in a complete national or statewide breakdown of law and order, any one or small group of operators would quickly be triangulated and jammed into oblivion between the FCC and the US military, if not summarily apprehended.
Oh, I know, we have been in an information war for a long time now. We can't let them take the internet away from us like we did the radio waves.
In all seriousness, though: it’s a lot easier for them to take away Internet access than for them to take HAM radio when things go sour.
Ehh, Yes and no. Yes they can shut the internet off, but they can also jam radio waves.
The only plus is that with the radio wave jamming they would have to spend a lot of money to accomplish that, whereas, they can just ask the three main companies who own the internet backbones to shut them down.
Agreed. It seems like broadband jamming over a wide geographic area is practically impossible, especially if the HAMs started to disregard their legal band allocations in a breakdown scenario.
Of course, when not in a complete national or statewide breakdown of law and order, any one or small group of operators would quickly be triangulated and jammed into oblivion between the FCC and the US military, if not summarily apprehended.