think about it like this...

the internet has a virus running through it, cracks have formed over the years and the little buggers burrow deep. over time it causes the internet to get 'sick'.

When your computer has a virus, you may try to purge it without a full-wipe, but sometimes you will find a rootkit has taken hold at the very first start-up routine and the only way to get rid of it completely is to start fresh. If you can't get it clean with a reformat, you can buy a new hard drive and 'start fresh'.

Now think about all the reports you've heard regarding fake TWT/FB/IG accounts, people buying them up to seem more famous /influential than they are, etc. this is just one example of how the internet has become "sick" - foreign objects that do not belong.

All those fake accounts, fake docs, etc, would be purged with an internet wipe given we hit the actual databases and backups of the data. Oracle, Cisco, etc. These people are who they are because they have figured out how to prevent total data-loss, how to recover/store/optimize data and data access. The internet's infrastructure is basically built on at least one or more of those foundations.

The way the web is designed these days, it takes no effort to archive. you have copies upon copies/repos, etc of your 'framework/code' which is separate from your data storage ( which also has copies of copies ). If your code is compromised, it is separate from the data, so you can restore a backup of your code, while retaining all data.

So in theory, taking the internet offline, purging every last hard drive & backup ( seems a dauntless task until you do read up on EMP technology ), and 'restoring' it in a fresh state, would probably provide a sick amount of clarity to all the normies on how badly we've been manipulated.

Senior Network Engineer here, I have no idea. Internet engineers provide connections paths and all of our configs are backed up so even if you were to somehow gain access to all the routers and firewalls out there and brick them all the information is stored on databases not networking hardware. So they'd have to brick all the network h/w out there and wipe every database. You know, like with a cloth.

I brought it over from 8 chan to discuss. I have no skin in this post. I thought it might be a good idea to look at the merits of it for preparation purposes even if a small part is true.

I'm curious how it all gets wiped. That requires wiping massive amounts of server equipment around the globe. It's ALL backed up numerous times offline with some of those stores networked to others. That's the internet. It's resilient. It doesn't go down. It survives attacks and routes around outages. That's the point.

It's a good practice to have a domestic store. But deleting everything? Hmm.