Homeland Security to “block facebook” due to swine flu
October 27, 2009
According to Homeland Security, if the swine flu forces too many people to telecommute to work, they will shut down popular websites such as Facebook, Youtube and even Digg due to bandwidth issues, or better said allow Comcast to “shut down” access to these sites.
BLOCKING WEBSITES
Private Internet providers might need government authorization to block popular websites, it said, or to reduce residential transmission speeds to make way for commerce. Reuters
There you have it people, the Swine Flu ( H1N1 ) is set to turn facebook dark, youtube blank and digg will be dugg.
This is a freaking outrage, exactly what are we supposed to do then, perhaps they should shut down ready.gov while they are at it. Oh wait they already did… as Ready.Gov does not work, their DNS is lacking an A record.. you have to type in www.ready.gov to get there… clearly these people don’t know how to operate a website, much less write legislation regarding it.
In case of another national emergency, I’m sure all the millions of Americans hitting Ready.Gov will find that error message to be so helpful… because the millions of updates on Facebook won’t help at all.. nor will the near live uploads of video shot from cell phone cameras to Youtube.
Who is the fool that setup that DNS on ready.gov? I’m offering to fix the problem for them.
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