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.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What! No ads!! how will we survive

Anonymous said...

Obama may have had something to do with this!

Anonymous said...

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

LoneWolf Media said...

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.

Bob Huntley said...

Attack of the toasters again.