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Once again, how? Sure they can get the very mainstream stuff, but not everything. Furthermore that "shut down the internet" is such a stupid boomer concept. That would take out pos infrastructure, billing, government operations, everything. They can't do it. Even Akami told the government to fuck off when they were instructed to halt operations in russia, and Akami is based in Florida(with all their infrastructure in india). The government can't do shit to them, because all Akami would have to do is flip a switch and the IRS loses it's ddos protection. By the by, DDOS protection does more than stop botnets, there are natural, non malicious issues that happen which cause high traffic.
You put way too much faith in these people. These are people that can't set up zoom without help desk. These are people that do not know what a primary key or a secondary key are, much less replication lag and the inherent problems with large noSql databases.
These are fools that believe they have merit. Every single threat that the doomsayers claim will happen, would be the end of clown world. shut down the internet? Welcome to Amish world. Hyper censorship of the mainstream? Welcome to balkanet. People here go on about "namfags" but they don't scrub the metadata off their memes properly.
The elites do not have control over tech. They lost that control in the 90s. No one really has control over it. Maybe the cloud data center providers? but even then that is questionable.