Sunday, June 2, 2019

Did The U.S. Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch? Major Sites Are Down Right Now


Zero Hedge: Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?

At 3pmET, it appears that Google Cloud (affecting Gmail, YouTube, SnapChat, Instagram, and Facebook among others) mysteriously (and almost unprecedently) went offline.

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WNU Editor: This all started around 15:00 EST. In all of my years from working on the web (and I have been involved since the early 1990s), I have never seen anything like this. In my case Google Analytics and Adsense is down. I cannot post pictures on this blog. Youtube is working. Facebook is slow. Something big just happened.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2019 at 5:08 PM

    What! No ads!! how will we survive

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  2. AnonymousJune 2, 2019 at 5:10 PM

    Obama may have had something to do with this!

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  3. AnonymousJune 2, 2019 at 6:54 PM

    Cool. I'm sure Bolton will blame Iran. Regime change any minute now.

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  4. LoneWolf MediaJune 2, 2019 at 6:56 PM

    Google cloud outage that caused this. With many companies utilizing Google and Google itself owning a lot of the companies that went down this is nothing new.

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  5. Bob HuntleyJune 2, 2019 at 7:28 PM

    Attack of the toasters again.

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