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by kbyers 5621 days ago
It is not so easy--large networks will have a lot of redundancy built-in. Consequently, even shutting down a single large BGP autonomous system is not a simple problem and would have a lot of unintended consequences.

Wikileaks is not a good analogy. Wikileaks is more analogous to black-holing one small AS.