Never let the facts get in the way of a great story and in this week’s regular on chat with Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan, we set of on an adventure to see if the internet can be killed.

Our first stop was the reality that governments can, have and do regularly cut off internet access either totally, to some sites or undesirable topics, so yes in that sense it can be stopped, but can it be killed.

The theory of chopping one of the may underground undersee cables that carried the internet also doesn’t seem plausible, there are just so many as this diagram shows.

Even if it was we have satellite internet to pick up the slack.

As well as lots of other forms of internet access.

This genie is well and truly out of the bottle and can’t be put back in, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has equal and ready access to it and that to me is the bigger issue.

Have a listen to our chat and let me know what you think.