• slazer2au
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    01 year ago

    Humans are stupid and will ignore outage information and warnings no matter how they are communicated.

    So much more things happen over the internet then you realise, not just websites. You are effectively killing telephones, that means no 911/112/000/999 calls can happen. No banking transactions, most card machines work over mobile internet now so no paying for things with cards, cash only.

    Well what about if we allow phones to stay working, what would be the effect? Every ISP help desk would get flooded with calls asking why their internet is not working, when it will be fixed, and why they weren’t told about it.
    But surely people will realise over time it happens and the calls will stop right?

    No, see my first paragraph.

    Source: I work in IT and worked for an ISP for 8 years. People are stupid.