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Well, you might be able to do it. But you might not want to be holding it in YOUR hand when you turn it on. :P

The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there’s a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they’d then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia’s site. I doubt they would bother.

All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.

The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.

It’d be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.

For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.

I’ve been to the US twice since 9/11 and neither time was I asked for my phone. Not to say it didn’t happen before now. It happens in many countries if they decide they have even a tiny bit of suspicion.

But, frankly right now I would not travel to the USA for any reason.

The thing is, every Boeing plane that has any problem is going to make it to the news right now. So it’s very hard to see what is relevant and what is just “one of those things”. So, this will make them look worse than they really are.

Having said that, they have problems. My opinion is that cost-cutting has created all their recent actual problems (MCAS, missing bolts, loose bolts etc) and I’d argue that unless the actual location(s) responsible for these problems is identified, the safest thing to do would be to recall ALL aircraft recently (last 3 years AT LEAST) serviced, repaired or had their configuration changed at a Boeing owned or subcontracted location should be reviewed for substandard work.

My reasoning here is that if we have loose/missing bolts on the 737 Max 8/9 and -900ER. It won’t stop there, it is going to almost certainly be an institutionalised problem of quality control slippage that could affect any aircraft maintenance, repair, or adjustment operation.

But, I’m not an aviation expert, so my opinion is worth very little.

I think this is the answer. Time for the companies to experience the bad side of fire and rehire.