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To all the crypto family out there, prepare for total chaos. Sudden death will be new talk of the town this fall, early 2023. Energy prices will reach unimaginable levels in coming months as inflation heats up and central banks throw all their cards just to realize they can’t…
control it. Food will get scarce, biblical famines will hit 3rd world countries, spilling over to western world. EU energy rationing policies will cause wave of deaths this winter. CBDCs will roll out globally following China example. Universal basic income ( UBI ) …
Social credit score, food rationing with monthly allowance to buy essentials will be new norm and marketed as only fitted solution to global chaos. Every industry will experience bankruptcies shocks globally. Travel will become unaffordable to average middle class family…
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#LetTheNetWork
Seven years ago, the central government’s Digital India initiative acknowledged that expanded internet access was the key to attain digital inclusion. But India’s tryst with internet shutdowns tells a different story...
theprint.in/opinion/digita…
#InternetShutdowns
Since 2012, India has witnessed 558 shutdowns with an estimated loss of 582.8 million to the Indian economy in 2021 alone.
@top10vpn
#internetshutdowns #keepiton #internetdown
In the absence of any formally announced orders for Internet shutdowns to the public before or after a network disruption, documenting these restrictions is important.
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Why is your internet broken today? A thread from an @oii dr. of Internet infrastructure:

TL;DR--bc the #internet has material limits & business and consumers want their content ASAP, which means it needs to be physically close. 1/9

#internetdown #internet #cdn
The internet was built as a peer-to-peer network enabling each user to request and access content on a peer’s computer, which acts as a server hosting that particular content.

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But, the size of the world and the physical limits of the cables and wires that make up the internet mean that content requested on a hosting server that is far away will take longer to load. 3/9

Which people find annoying & costs companies money.
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