Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com) 64
"We were all free of Facebook's iron grip on the internet for a few hours," writes Gizmodo.
An anonymous reader quotes their report. Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp experienced widespread outages on Sunday for the second time in the past month (and the third time this year), with issues reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. ET and extending until around 9:00 a.m. ET. Per Bloomberg, Facebook and Instagram domains ceased to be accessible by users during that time period, while Messenger and WhatsApp were also non-functional... Users worldwide appeared to be impacted, with Bloomberg noting that Twitter users everywhere from the U.S. to Israel and Thailand were complaining about the outage.
An anonymous reader quotes their report. Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp experienced widespread outages on Sunday for the second time in the past month (and the third time this year), with issues reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. ET and extending until around 9:00 a.m. ET. Per Bloomberg, Facebook and Instagram domains ceased to be accessible by users during that time period, while Messenger and WhatsApp were also non-functional... Users worldwide appeared to be impacted, with Bloomberg noting that Twitter users everywhere from the U.S. to Israel and Thailand were complaining about the outage.
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As a Christian, I insulted a Muslim on Youtube.
What if,
As a Muslim, I insulted a Christian on Youtube.
Please discuss in this First-Amendment, Free-Speech Zone for all....
You'd be a moron on either case.
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You sure haven't understood the scientific method if you think evolution disproves creationism or that if one part of a book is false, everything else must be false also.
You should consider chilling a bit.
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You sure haven't understood the scientific method if you think that it is necessary for anyone to prove that the book is false.
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Clapton is very much alive.
Re: What if (Score:2)
You are a moron whenever you insult someone else. No matter if that's for the religion, the sports or the sex.
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As a Christian, I insulted a Muslim on Youtube.
What if,
As a Muslim, I insulted a Christian on Youtube.
Please discuss in this First-Amendment, Free-Speech Zone for all....
You'd be a moron on either case.
His theoretical has merit:
If as a Christian you insult a Muslim on youtube, you're a horrible privileged white male patriarch gun-loving homophobe hell bent on oppressing others, and you'll likely be banned / buried / demonetized.
If as a Muslim you insult a Christian on youtube you're a woke trans gay hoplohobe minority victim who is using your freedom of expression to try to help right a wrong, and you'll be promoted and become the next Youtube Sensation and run for Congress
Did I stereotype enough there t
Ask Elon for help (Score:1)
His ideas can really help!
They fixed it? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn... Oh well. Maybe next time.
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These outages seem to be coming along more frequently ... maybe there is hope!
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give praise to the Lord, America
His Facebook page is down.
Whats App Down! Yay! Great!!! (Score:2)
Hey, hey, cool it down both sides, messages provoke angry replies from both groups.... Welcome respite.
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Thought of the day (Score:5, Insightful)
Considering nothing of value was lost during the outage, that should tell you just how valuable the service actually is.
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Yeah except a messaging system providing encrypted services to billions of people around the world which is in some countries used as an exclusive form of communication and has been shown to not bow down to government pressure to sell out users.
Next time don't engage that anti Facebook section of your brain and you may see how stupid your comment was.
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There are other messaging apps that let people have encrypted chats with the added benefit of not giving any data to Facebook.
Oh that’s why (Score:3)
I was wondering why there were so many people on in the forest. On the trail, I met other people on bikes, people on horses and even some were even walking. 2/3 around the trail however, people seemed to had vanished. I guess they got reconnected to the mothership. :)
Cheers.
The Internet was Still Working (Score:2)
I could still get to the porn.
Still screwed up... (Score:2)
... at late afternoon Central time. Only showing 3-4 items in one's news feed. I'm sure Mark's spear-heading the team that's working on it.
Oh Noes! (Score:1)
Facebook is out!
Zuckerberg can't steal information!!!!
Maybe I slept through it (Score:2)
I slept through it, or maybe I was awake. Either way I didn't notice it at all.
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I was awake, but didn't use them to notice.
Outrage (Score:4, Interesting)
As soon as I saw Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp I was primed to read 'outrage' rather than 'outage'.
So glad I quit that bad habit.
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What utter bullshit. Just logout already. You can do it.
You obviously do not understand the underlying problem
So What!! (Score:2)
I did not wake up until 8:00am PDT, which is 11:00am EDT and after the outage was fixed. In any case, I do not participate in any social networking. So the outage (and the prior outages) had zero impact on me.
Crisis hotline overloaded? (Score:2)
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How would they find the crisis hotline as the primary place to find information was down?