Reply #18: Estonia is a different situation

[northzax]

it was a much smaller system with few entry points. It was more like closing an offramp on a highway. Or creating a traffic jam. It's east to block traffic on one or two roads, now imagine trying to create a traffic jam on every road in the US, simultaneously. While also preventing any off-road traffic, planes, trains, bikes, anything. And then imagine that almost all traffic, anywhere in the world, goes thhrough the US. How long would the rest of the world allow that to happen before finding another route? Not long. Within a day, there would be other root servers up and running. You could slow down the net for a day or so, but not stop it for long. And why would the genius geeks at the Internet firms stand for it without finding workarounds? all those geniuses at google, microsoft, at universities, and companies you never heard of who are getting rich, or hope to? No way.