[Nasrudith]

Yeah any talk of a "drawbridge" or "emergency shutdown button" has always been either sheer ignorance or a pretext for censorship. Since if you want security you don't shut it down for everyone but either disconnect everything of infastructural importance.

If your power plants are at risk of hacking you don't prepare by planning to shutdown the internet - you prepare by making sure it can work when unplugged them from insecure networks. Because if loss of said connectivity would cause problems shutting it down is no help and if it doesn't there is no need to boost collateral damage - unleas that is the /real/ goal.

[jdsully]

Be charitable here,

Its much easier to disconnect the international connections than to simultaneously disconnect every piece of critical infrastructure at once during an attack. While I believe this is probably a pretext for further censorship, the underlying rationale does have merit.

International disconnects also have the benefit of your internal communications mostly keep working.

[lucas_membrane]

The rationale has more merit for a regime that considers facts illegitimate tools of western degeneracy and aggression while waging its own cyber war than for one that wants to work for cyber peace.