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AWS, Now Verizon - Is the Tech Industry Experimenting With Surveillance and Cutting Communication During Moments of Public Unrest? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Title.

Also, should we have a tinfoil hat emoji?

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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I need more information. AWS? I know Verizon is a telecom giant but what happened?

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't notice. I guess I've done a good job of becoming amazon free.

If you want a less pessimistic view these outages could have been anti-imperialist counter attacks in response to the Iran shenanigans.

I can imagine some Chinese and/or Russian hackers gifting Iranian hackers an exploit they set up in amazons oldest data center. Leaving a little message in there "tell musk to stop sending starlink to terrorists" Bezos losing millions or dollars because musk is a fascist that helps terrorist would be sure to provoke some divisions.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

A lot of web content is hosted on AWS.

That's a happy thought, although not realistic.