while there are household ethernet over powerline adapters, the internet doesn't run on powerlines or the electrical grid. It is run through cable and fiber.
True I was too basic in my comment. To clarify, our current power grid is managed by the state in conjunction with corporations. The internet is a series of systems within the electrical grid via cables as well as antenas and satellites managed by both the state and corporations. Much like the telephone system, the internet has its own vast infrastucture allowing us to communicate worldwide but without electricity, it disappears. The same electricity managed by the state and corporations which have yet to block electricity from the homes / bussinesses of people with wrong opinions. This is why I can see a situation where a new communication method is birthed from the infrastrucre already in place.
It's a series of tubes.
String and cans
(post is archived)