Seize of ISP packets by NSA or anyone else would be an international scandal, much bigger than all the Snowden revelations together.
Things need to worse a lot for that be a real short term menace. And even if it becomes a menace in some parts of the world, it won't be in ALL the world, unless they create the unified world goverment, what is far beyond to happen.
If your ISP screw things for you, you can use sattelite internet or something to bypass it, from a country with no such restrictions
Oh man, there's a docsis document showing where said device is placed, between the isp's and the net, not the cmts and your stupid wifi/switch/router
And as I said, you can use satellite, but of the other end?
you are 100% correct but its all common knowledge -
reading though the responses looks more like r/bitcoin everyday here ha ha .
here is the point though:
(this is hard to explain in English)
"innovation" is a form of energy, money is an "energy token" < so there is a distinct relationship here and i will get to the point for you.
a "society" can be and is as viable as its "productive innovative participants", you are talking about localized "sessionizers"
the previous response re "Kill the Internet" is
actually retarded , because the OP is not suggesting that the aim is to "Kill" crypto he is suggesting that the aim is control. (a vastly different thing)(but related)
which is provable and has occurred to a degree on the "Internet"
so that's why the retarded "INTERNET Kill switch" argument is so backwards.
but here is the point:no matter how backward you think other nations are in an interconnected world, there are governments that are not ruled by banking institutions and thus their "motive" is not to control what you use as "money".
so in the scenario the OP describes, the entities enforcing the "control" (packet and otherwise) will also enforce the "destruction of innovation" which is essentially an energy (as describe above), this will then flow to a competing source, and re-balance.
Summary:the West becomes "The Soviets" in that scenario. (there is evidence to suggest this is already occurring as the west loses the lead in key innovative areas)
* ha ha the reason you got such a happy response was because you said "NSA" ha ha hurting the feelings of many of the regular forum goers who had to then rush to log in to a sock puppet account to express their opinion, ha ha