claim: "there are mechanisms in place to shut down the internet privately."
author: andrew napolitano
evidence_1: an internet kill switch is the cybercrime and countermeasures concept of  activating a single shut off mechanism for all internet traffic. the concept behind  having a kill switch is based on creating a single point of control (i.e. a switch) for  a single authority to control or shut down the internet in order to protect it or its  users.
evidence_2: aug 7, 2015 ... in general, so far there has been little emphasis on the distinction between  consortium blockchains and fully private blockchains, although it is important: .....  auditing, the case for a blockchain has to stack up against a regular database  and cryptography, and the overall internal mechanisms already in place.
evidence_3: on 18 january 2012, the english wikipedia shut down for 24 hours beginning at  5:00 utc (12:00 est) to protest sopa and pipa. in the wake of this and many  other online protests, rep. lamar smith has stated, "the house judiciary  committee will postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider  agreement on ...
evidence_4: feb 17, 2017 ... they have no idea that cryptocurrency will radically scale back the power of  government, not just their own one, but also all those other governments over  which it ..... it's kind of ironic, they shut down my store for very corrupt / crooked  reasons, meanwhile i invested my profits into bitcoin/ether/litecoin lmao.
evidence_5: jul 27, 2014 ... in this paper, we present an automatic mechanism to consolidate virtual servers  and shut down the idle physical machines during the off-peak hours, while ... to  enable automatic vm migration, we have investigated private cloud building  related technologies and used kvm [9]/qemu [10] virtualization ...