I wasn't speaking about hardware, that's the "easy" part. Sorry, if my last post was too abstract. You need software ("router") that "knows" the path from your device to the destination device, so you can send a package and it gets routed to the desired device. If you want that to be decentralized it's very hard to do.
I think without changing the routing software we would end up where we are right now as it would need to be controlled by a centralized institution of some kind.
Also im not speaking about websites such as facebook, those are running on the internet. Im referring to the internet itself.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8288163/How-Egypt-shut-down-the-internet.html
- NSA/GCHQ/... recording all the internet traffic at central exchange points
I understand that you are talking about the internet itself. How would they implement a kill switch? A true kill switch in my opinion would be to physically destroy all of the hardware. And I don't see that happening without of sort of huge magnetic pulse, and that would destroy everything else as well. Shy of that we as a people are resourceful enough that it would come back up as most likely a different network. And if it's a true free market that rebuilds it, it will end up being a better network structure. That is where we were heading before Al Gore forced the "internet" down our throats.