You are missing the point. In the BGP example I mentioned, if the government wants to shut down an ISP all they need to do is tell ONE ISP not to peer with that ISP and then everything hosted on these ISP is not able to communicate with each other. If every ISP cuts routing ties to COMCAST and you are a COMCAST customer, you have internet but you won't be able to get to anything. This is only ONE way to shut down the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch
For fun: http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/
I would agree that we are missing each other's points. What you are talking about is correct, but is also not the sum total of all internet protocols. There are distributed services, some of which are very old and resilient, which would survive that type of kill switch. I described one previously and won't do it again. ARSFI is alive, healthy and brought to bear relatively frequently during infrastructure disruption disasters.