Internet Blackouts Skyrocket Amid Global Political Unrest (axios.com) 51
Where there's a coup, there will probably be an internet outage. From a report: Internet disruptions in Myanmar early Monday morning coincided with reports that top politicians, including the country's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, were being rounded up by the military. That's no surprise: internet blackouts are now common around the world when power hangs in the balance. At least 35 countries have restricted access to the internet or social media platforms at least once since 2019, according to Netblocks, a group which tracks internet freedom. Authorities have used the outages to reduce or prevent unrest -- or to hide it from public view. Blockages are particularly common around elections in Africa, most recently in Uganda. Netblocks also reported disruptions in Russian cities during recent protests over the detention of Alexey Navalny. Neighboring Belarus also disrupted the internet during recent protests, as have countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
Blackouts Mean Coups? (Score:4, Funny)
I assume Comcast and Centurylink have been taking over small countries a lot recently.
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During a political unrest, infrastructure is usually the first to take a hit. America, Much of Europe, and countries with a strong rule of law and political succession planning, tend to handle political unrest without hitting the infrastructure side as hard.
Say Your job is to make sure the Internet cables are maintained. You get paid directly or indirectly by the government. If such government is in shambles, the fact that you are doing work for what ever government that is currently paying the bills, m
Re: fucking shitholes (Score:2)
Just simplify to:
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"Humans..."
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But humans are not equal. They have different souls, personalities, moral character, and abilities.
The word "equal" does not mean "the same".
This is why I'm a eugenicist: keep the good ones and breed them like cattle, and the bad ones go elsewhere. You don't have to kill them, like some kind of primitive tyrant, just send them away.
Oh, sorry; didn't realize that you were intending some kind of irony here.
Equal = same level (Score:1)
I see you agree that it is ambiguous.
It generally means, of the same level. Egalitarianism is an anti-hierarchical argument.
So for example, you have two variables, x and y, which are both equal to five.
We say that x and y are equal; this does not mean that they are the same variable, only that they have the same value.
In the same way social rank in equality does not mean that we are the same person, or identical, only that we have the same level in the hierarchy...
It might be better (Score:1)
To simply repatriate the Leftists to Venezuela, a nice wealthy, tropical, and vibrantly diverse, and then let the Right deal with such people.
They tend to have strong opinions on a lot of that behavior... and also, are completely incompatible with Leftism (egalitarianism).
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On a surface level eugenics seems sensible right? You can breed out negative traits and enhance the positive ones.
But which traits are negative and which are positive? Breed out sickle cell anemia and you breed out malaria immunity. Breed out autism and lose some potentially great analytical minds.
Worse than that, who gets to decide which people get to breed and which people get sterilized? Is it you? Is it me? The government?
Not quite on that level (Score:1)
You breed for health, intelligence, beauty, and character. Better people breed more, worse people do not. It's not rocket science, and sure beats the Mouse Utopia through deleterious mutations that we have going now.
https://charltonteaching.blogs... [blogspot.com]
Solution (Score:2)
Re:Solution (Score:4, Interesting)
Kinda, however with Star Link, you will still need to be sure that you can get the equipment sent over to you. Also we need to be sure Companies like Space X get approval to launch into space. Also traffic will end back at terrestrial locations who are at the whim of local governments.
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Evolution of the species does not look like it is heading in a good direction
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The reason why MOBILE DATA (and not internet in general) is being killed during protests is twofold:
1. The protests are 99% organized over Telegram and Signal today. Shutting off mobile data AND WiFi in all coffee shops (as requested by the Russians last two weekends) effectively beheads the protest. They are wondering like zombies and do not know what to do.
2. It makes impossible to stage standard brainwashing and indoctrination by doctoring police response videos especially in countries w
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1. How to get instruction from your handler abroad. 99% of the protests in Russia last week were run from Berlin. There were no local heads in most of the cities. All instructions were from abroad. As a result, clamping down on connectivity resulted in practically no protests where it was done.
2. How to upload content about the protest in real time and take the narrative.
You do not need mesh as there is little or no need to exchange data between the protesters
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You know what I haven't read yet? (Score:3)
The reasons for the coup.
I mean no matter what one thinks of them. Any coup is a risky maneuver. So there had to be intense reasons, at least dom their point of view.
Because right now, I cannot even freaking judge if this is nutjobs seeing evil where there was none because of some induced ideology (like religion), or maybe the government was not nice and actually a foreign puppt government doing horrible things, ... and I do not like jumping on any bandwagon without that info whatsoever!
Yes, I will look it up.
But this complaint is about how this crucial info is conveniently completely left out in the "news".
Nobody just revolts without reason. What happened?
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Boiled down synopsis: Used to be completely military controlled. With Aung San Suu Kyi in power, the military's influence on the country was being balanced on a knife-edge while attempting to allow Suu Kyi to carry on her duties. Then there was a huge landslide election victory for Suu Kyi's political party, which lead the military to believe they were being forced out of power altogether. They rallied and took Suu Kyi and other party members hostage rather than cede what power they have left, and have n
Now you've riled up the proles (Score:2)
Every time the internet goes down: "OMG the boog is finally kicking off!"
A->B: coup -> shutdown
! B->A: shutdown -> coup
Sadly, however, we will probably continue to have massively terrible internet thanks to the huge amounts of red tape that make running new lines very expensive.
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However while A Shutdown doesn't equal a coup, it does mean it could be the cause, which would need further investigation.
Cause? (Score:1)
By itself, I doubt that. It could be a touchstone event, especially if people believed it meant that a coup was coming.
Dare to mention... (Score:2)
Myanmar, Uganda, and of course our favorite foul Russia. Are the slashdot populist dare to mention the internet block out by the world's largest democracy and a new US ally in its fight against China [theconversation.com]?
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Minor problem, not protesters, TikTok crews including one led by a well known TikToker going under the
Facebook and Twitter are doing this same thing (Score:2, Insightful)
Freedom for others but not in the US (Score:2, Insightful)
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There is a hundred times worse action and organizing done in other countries right on the big tech boys websites but these American companies don’t speak the language well so don’t moderate as well or at all.
1. Machine translation is more than good enough for this nowdays.
2. Most countries have watchdogs and laws nowdays. Facebook simply ignores them and fits everything to our own narrative. Ditto for Twitter. TikTok is an interesting oddball here, because it seems to care only about money and does not give a shit about illegal content if it makes any. Not sure that this is sustainable - India will be joined by others at this rate.
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For real this time (Score:1)
Actual coups and blackouts, not just hype and hysterics from bored kids and CNN.
Here in the US (Score:1, Interesting)
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and weirdly it seems to work.
R.I.P. Parler - we barely knew thee. You were far less radical and vile than 4chan but couldn't manage to stay up for two years. People will have to find other back alleys of the Internet to talk about the best rifle caliber and other inane bullshit.
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Here in the US when a coup happens they simply ban you from Twitter and Facebook.
Because Twitter and FB are only willing to do that for coup in the US.
For any other country, they won't do shit and the only option for their government is to either blackout the whole Internet, or completely block Twitter and FB.
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Airdrop satellite phones (Score:2)
While in the US... (Score:1)
While in the more advanced US, blackouts have been perfected to only target unapproved speech.