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Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism
- Linda231 3y ago[dead]
- crtasm 3y agoAny confirmation on this? Their twitter profile links a site with a self-signed certificate, I didn't look further.
- bastawhiz 3y agoDidn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month? https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-undersea-cables/ https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-... What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?
- dontknowmuch 3y agoCan't be cheap to repair it.
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- zgs 3y ago[flagged]
- olliej 3y agoI'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoYeah I don't think I'd call it terrorism by any reasonable definition. An act of aggression certainly but increasing latency/decreasing bandwidth due to a set of lost links is not by any means terrorism. Nobody was physically harmed and it shouldn't have any real effect on essential or life preserving services (unless those services are incredibly poorly designed at which point the developers/maintainers should be held at fault).
- cuckatoo 3y agoAnything can be terrorism if it is politically beneficial. This is 2024, after all.
- r00fus 3y agoSame as in 2004. It's so political powerful, you can even start a war against it.
- XorNot 3y agoTerrorism[1] is committing crime for political purposes, rather then for personal gain, and this definition is well recognized. Terrorism has never been exclusively categorized as mass casualty attacks (and that's a relatively recent phenomenon, compared to the 70s and 80s with hijackings). [1] https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803103209420 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...
- FpUser 3y agoWhy are you bullshitting people? Straight from your referenced link: "The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- bluish29 3y agoAuthorities of whom, the tweet is lacking a source or even information about the accident. Not to mention jumping to a terrorism case without any other details. I don't know how this is on front page.
- pyvpx 3y agoprecisely. this simply inflammatory
- pangolinja 3y ago[flagged]
- simonblack 3y ago[flagged]
- jemmyw 3y agoYes, but I don't recall many people claiming blowing up the gas pipelines was good, whoever it was that did it. Even if you wanted that pipeline gone, releasing all that methane wasn't a good thing to do.
- gz3579 3y ago[dead]
- cbg0 3y agoBlowing up gas pipelines was never presented as "good" in the media.
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