That’s the thing. Over the past 10 years or so United States routing was not capable of Internet2 level gatekeeping. Only ISP side was packet transit enforced by security ( looking for headers like I described in my last post at the transport level of each packet. )

The possibility of really closing off the internet is entirely possible now. Namely if they wanted to they could bring the core of the internet into a VPN like VLAN that would require a Federal Auth. That would mean there was an internet within an internet and to get into core services - you would need to login with national ID ).

In my head I would roll that out by promising certain Big Tech companies and ISPs a sort of Too Big to Fail incentive to institute the Federal Authentication. Likewise - we can put our money in this being implemented under a National Emergency. Picture a “CyberAttack” taking place on Financial Institutions that locks up peoples access to their finances unless they “buy in” to the Federal Auth. They will argue the only way to conduct business safely is for this “Security”. They actually have a CyberPatriot Act waiting to implement a system like this in IPv6 space.

So the thing with IPv6 routing is that it can be denied pretty easily at ISP level. That means you could connect and just not route past the little ISP ghetto. They would deny you access to unapproved routes and literally deny access except for specifically granted schema ( like allowing you to send emails to people within that ISP network or to things like approved vendors ).

The Internet of Things they want is going to make the whole face of what we have grown to know basically die.

All it takes to force everyone onto it is the right Hegelian Dialectic.