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		InclinedPlane on Feb 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill s... The internet is a global internetwork, a network of networks, as it were. That's where the name comes from. Partitioning the internet is isomorphic to destroying the internet.

amalcon on Feb 3, 2011 [–]

Would you say that the Internet is "destroyed" whenever there's an earthquake or something that cuts trans-Atlantic cables? Would you say that it's "destroyed" by China's filtering?

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