LMS 7.9 Internet dependency?

My Internet connection was down this morning, and LMS 7.9 would not start. The logs seemed to indicate that something related to Internet Radio could not phone-home, and was effectively hanging the startup process.

Is anyone aware of any badly-behaving plugins that would do this? Does anyone have any tips for avoiding / removing / forbidding any Internet dependency?

I have pruned my plugins-list to disable anything I don't really need, especially things that might want to communicate externally.