In post-oil America, after the crash, when we revert to a subsistence farming economy, the key thing is to keep the internet up. With the internet up, we'll be able to see regional shortages and surpluses. We'll be able to share farming techniques and low-tech solutions to energy, security, and other problems. And we'll be able to communicate and build a new democracy from the ground up. Without the internet, we would be plunged into darkness, and there would be much more fear, violence, and hardship.
As the government collapses on itself in a frenzy of "control". it will try to bring down the internet, via sabotage if necessary. Currently the largest telecom corporations control the infrastructure, and they will follow goverment dictates (or vice-versa).
So we need to start now. Sys admins! What do we need to do to organize and prepare?
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