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well, if the people in charge of DNS decided to do something to DNS, they just could and the whole world would be at their mercy for potentially months. with how everything is digital these days, by taking down DNS for a single country you could cripple their economy and many of their public services. that means power, water, infrastructure like bridges, their internet, banking, etc. basically, you name it, it probably uses the internet in some way, and if it uses the internet then chances are it uses DNS. now, eventually, people would work around it if given the chance, but if you do something like that it's probably happening right before a general invasion of their country.
it's really bad that we have just one authority in charge of all that, especially one based in the US. with how authoritarian the US is getting, I fully expect DNS to be weaponized in some way at some point.