ALWAYS ? How do You know ? B)
You letting them do electromag comms outside internet?
For sake of digging, if they are say becoming sentient, would that not place them in the same situation as U.S Citizens currently find themselves (just for the sake of argument). I'll give you some wisenheimer in a EC-130 with the proper access could monitor my internet session and send me 4 different coherent responses in context on 4 different comms channels at once giving 4 coordinated messages at the same time, in 4 different formats, with 2 of the channels not being IP or internet based - BUT seems unlikely with all the other stuff we really are trying to fix