Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?

in #internet6 years ago

At 3 PM Eastern Time, Google Cloud mysteriously went down in sections of the country.

This affected Gmail, YouTube, SnapChat, Instagram, and Facebook among others. Not only were online services affected but so were some of the mobile providers.

The outage was very suspicious. For all these entities to suddenly go offline raising certain issues. All these entities are mega-technology companies. That means that something bigger than them could be involved.

What is bigger than mega-tech companies? The United States government comes to mind.

Did they just flip the Internet Kill Switch?

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Huh. Since Goolag has proved it is evil, I have done what I can to remove it from my life. I didn't notice the lack of it at all. I consider that some indication at least, of partial success in that endeavor.

Thanks!

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