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I wonder how many conspiracies this single outage will trigger.

rootforce 7y ago
Theory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.
- moate 7y ago
  My theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.
  - brooksgarrett 7y ago
    No. The internet is in a box and Jenn broke it.
danso 7y ago
Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.
- indigochill 7y ago
  I've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment: 1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto. 2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure. 2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - cabaalis 7y ago
    My conspiracy theory: The dehumanization regex was found to match too many non-conservatives, prompting a rollback that failed.
- YinglingLight 7y ago
  Nah that's low level conspiracies. The new tier are in the vein "Twitter/Facebook/Google is currently being raided and forced to copy over DBs for an ongoing investigation into surveillance/censorship/pizza/Molochworship".
dvduval 7y ago
The Tron man's biker shorts ripped right in the crotch, and they're rushing to repair the split in his pants.
iamnotacrook 7y ago
Yeah, I'm sure it's all a big coincidence. If someone was targeting them all I'm sure the effects would be entirely different.
master-litty 7y ago
I'm counting three in these comments so far :)

Theory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.

moate 7y ago
My theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.
- brooksgarrett 7y ago
  No. The internet is in a box and Jenn broke it.

danso 7y ago

Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.

indigochill 7y ago
I've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment: 1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto. 2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure. 2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.
- deleted 7y ago
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- cabaalis 7y ago
  My conspiracy theory: The dehumanization regex was found to match too many non-conservatives, prompting a rollback that failed.
YinglingLight 7y ago
Nah that's low level conspiracies. The new tier are in the vein "Twitter/Facebook/Google is currently being raided and forced to copy over DBs for an ongoing investigation into surveillance/censorship/pizza/Molochworship".

dvduval 7y ago

The Tron man's biker shorts ripped right in the crotch, and they're rushing to repair the split in his pants.

iamnotacrook 7y ago

Yeah, I'm sure it's all a big coincidence. If someone was targeting them all I'm sure the effects would be entirely different.

master-litty 7y ago

I'm counting three in these comments so far :)