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"The Internet" didn't break - Facebook broke access to their own networks by the rest of the Internet. How I loathe articles like these - because they often le
by EricE 5y ago
"The Internet" didn't break - Facebook broke access to their own networks by the rest of the Internet.
How I loathe articles like these - because they often lead to "solutions" that are worse than the "problem" they are trying to fix.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoYep. Glad I'm not the only one who hates journalists pulling an ELI5.
- tailspin2019 5y ago> “The Internet" didn't break - Facebook broke access to their own networks by the rest of the Internet. In fairness, the article lists a number of other outages, giving examples of where downtime with a single service has caused quite widespread disruption. So “the Internet breaking” is being used as a colloquial term for the times when random bits of the Internet experience issues. I actually didn’t think this was a bad article, and the “expert” quoted argues for more of a decentralised multi-node model to counter the increased centralisation that were currently seeing. That doesn’t strike me as a terrible viewpoint. It is always dangerous when journalists go and interview a single academic or “expert” and then take that individual’s view as gospel on the topic and repeat it verbatim. That always annoys me. In this specific case I think the resulting article wasn’t too bad.