> Whats the impact if the entire internet is down for a couple of hours? People get some off-screen time? Life goes on. > What if its more than a few hours be

> Whats the impact if the entire internet is down for a couple of hours? People get some off-screen time? Life goes on. > What if its more than a few hours because theres a natural monopoly?[...snip...] How much soft power do you think such an entity would have on the world stage. They're just commodity infra providers. The Facebook and Twitters of the world have way more power and influence. This isn't even a hypothetical. The big cloud providers have been around for what, a decade or so now? How many times has the world collapsed with every Cloudflare or AWS downtime? It's just not as big a deal as you paint it to be. These providers going down is like the digital equivalent of a highway crash -- a small inconvenience for a few hours, then forgotten about in a day or two.