Mr. President became a laughingstock, scoffed at by the media around the world. How could he just swallow this humiliation?
Merely firing over the phone and expelling the Intelligence Bureau chief was far from enough to vent his inner fury.
A banstorm swiftly swept across the nation!
—Of course, it's not about banning Mirage, that thing had been banned long ago. Though the ban was not entirely effective, they couldn't possibly issue the same ban repeatedly, admitting publicly that the previous ban had failed, could they? Wouldn't that be slapping the faces of officials at all levels?
Therefore, this time the ban targeted network proxies.
Until now, American users have needed to use proxy ports to log into the virtual world. Even though Lincoln had donated a supercomputer to the Embassy in Mexico, places beyond the border states were still too remote.
The surge in user count and the resulting distributed computing power couldn't fundamentally change this situation.