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U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-were-sick-of-it-anyway dept.

Ant writes "This story says the United Nations General Assembly voted 165 to 6 with one abstention to shut down the Internet. The reason given was that the rapid and uncontrolled flow of information was destabilizing the governments of many of the member states. Furthermore, the Internet has increasingly become a vehicle for fraud and scams. Finally, the Internet produced the infamous "DOT COM" debacle which had disastrous repercussions for the World economy."

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  1. Good by darth_MALL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that means no more stupid April Fool stories.

  2. April *fool* by Nermal6693 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, an April Fool is actually supposed to fool someone. Nobody could be stupid enough to be fooled by this!

  3. first person with the honor to bestow this one by u-238 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    as another addition to the tally of shitty half assed /. April fools.

    1. Re:first person with the honor to bestow this one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      An another to the useless bitching and whinging about it.

  4. Fuck you, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not even April 1st anymore in this part of the world, and it's well past noon everywhere else.

    And: It's not funny.

  5. God I hate slashdot an April fools .... by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After a while these inane stories get really annoying.

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  6. April fools are supposed to be concealed by AceJohnny · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Back in the old days, on April Fools day, most people forgot. And pranks were low-profile. You had to be careful to spot it.
    In school we had a sysadmin who'd send a prank e-mail to everyone. Same style as the usual informative mail he'd send from time to time. Everytime it was a subtle thing, often a follow-up of another affair or story going on, which made the mail seem more natural. And that prank was alone and enough.
    Back in the old days, Slashdot did one or two prank stories in the day. The rest was clean and pure.

    Now it seems EVERY SINGLE story is a poor joke! It's clogging up the news stream. Don't post stories which just recount pranks from other news sites! Have one original slashdot prank (Slashcode to be CSS2/XHTML compliant!), and let stay at that!

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