If you could remove an ENTIRE NATION's online presence... Which one you'd choose?

[JuanMena]

Question not worth for a thread in the Politics Forum. But still curious on popular opinion.

Imagine that somehow, you have the ability to remove from the Internet the entirety of content from one Nation.

I would definitely choose to remove the USA's online presence in it's entirety.

No more Twitter, no more Facebook, no more TikTok, no Kiwifarms, no Reddit, and all that comes with it (SJW matters, "Cyber bullying", Internet "Personalities"... you get the idea)

Edit: I'd separate China too.

 

[Armadillo]

Russia, get rid of most of the cheaters in online games.

 

[lwiz]

Russia, due state led cybercrime and fake news. Not even a fly can fart in totalitarian state like Putain led Russia without consent from above...

 

[Valwinz]

China because they are slavers

 

[Chris_Dai_Gyakuten_Saiban]

I would remove Korea's online presence

 

[Shenrai]

US no doubt.

 

[Deleted member 568468]

China or Poland - these two in general are nuclear wastes of this world and trust me, finding a friendly person from these countries is almost impossible

 

[Jayro]

I live in the USA, and I vote the USA. We're toxic as fuck.

 

[Megadriver94]

China, and by that Mainland China, because of the government's shifty ways and corrupt mannerisms. Some people fail to realize (or at most only partially) realize) that China too has its own Cyberwarfare unit. These Psy-op and disinfo agents are often called Wu-Maos. It is a major fucking error to point the finger to Russia, yet give so much fucking guff and pull out puff pieces to the ""People's'"" Republic of China. You don't get much freedom to choose where to live in the PRC, And you can get in deep trouble for publicly saying so much as lightly critical stuff about Xi. Both Russia and China have their shares of corruption for sure, but Russia, even with Putin and his closest cronies still largely in power, Xi Xingping is more of a Killer with his suppression of the Uighurs, taking away Hong Kong's freedoms and Tibetans and their respective cultures. Also, at least in Russia you don't need a permit to

If not China, then definitely Israel. They stole many US state secret, and also deliberately attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. They also control many aspects of the USA's political system, and arguably more so with many of the member nations of the EU, as well as Turkey and Canada. Not to mention how they've been making excuses for what they've been doing with the Palestinians in both West Bank and Gaza Strip.

 

[chrisrlink]

I agree with costello on russia as his reasoning is spot on with those russians gone from the net half the world's (digital) problems would be solved

 

[linuxares]

Brazil. So going to Brazil is even more of going to Brazil.

 

[sith]

internet is a human right! the people in whatever counties you dummies have misplaced bias' against are good and bad the same as any nation, it is on gba-temp mods to decide who's presence to remove not you lot.

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Well I hate the internet and everyone on it so the best choice would be to remove the presence of whichever country invented it and by extension that removes it from everyone else.
I had originally wrote a long thing trying to figure out how to nuke the internet but a problem I kept encountering was that if one country didn't develop it some other country working on a similar thing probably would have. So the best way to get rid of the internet is to get rid of whichever country invented computers, but then you have the same issue with many countries having similar ideas around and before the time that Turing was working on his stuff. What is the one thing that computers and therefore the internet could not exist without? Mathematics. If we remove ancient Greece's contributions towards the internet we not only wipe out the internet but thousands of years of human development since those things inevitably lead to the internet when developed further.

 

[Dust2dust]

Yeah, i agree with the above post. Let's remove the internet for everybody. No discrimination. We'll go back to the 80's, and we'll just meet on BBS's with our 300 baud modems.