system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How do you 'shut down a part of the Internet' or 'penetrate the Internet'?

Umm republic debate. Semi-serious.
gpt
Currently only NSA has the technology to unilaterally take out the internet in virtually any place. Its utilizes a massive QUANTUM attack on key routing servers and even larger end users. The idea is to disrupt internet in a certain place. 

The NSA has only unofficially done tests internally and Snowden claims they had their first real test of the system on Syria when the internet in Syria inexplicably went offline for a bit.

Note. The Quantum attack attacks the very architecture of the internet. Even PoS systems and ATMs went down in Syria. What the NSA has created is a very dangerous weapon.