Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com)

"We were all free of Facebook's iron grip on the internet for a few hours," writes Gizmodo.

An anonymous reader quotes their report. Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp experienced widespread outages on Sunday for the second time in the past month (and the third time this year), with issues reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. ET and extending until around 9:00 a.m. ET. Per Bloomberg, Facebook and Instagram domains ceased to be accessible by users during that time period, while Messenger and WhatsApp were also non-functional... Users worldwide appeared to be impacted, with Bloomberg noting that Twitter users everywhere from the U.S. to Israel and Thailand were complaining about the outage.

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Re:What if

[TigerPlish]

As a Christian, I insulted a Muslim on Youtube.

What if,

As a Muslim, I insulted a Christian on Youtube.

Please discuss in this First-Amendment, Free-Speech Zone for all....

You'd be a moron on either case.

His theoretical has merit:

If as a Christian you insult a Muslim on youtube, you're a horrible privileged white male patriarch gun-loving homophobe hell bent on oppressing others, and you'll likely be banned / buried / demonetized.

If as a Muslim you insult a Christian on youtube you're a woke trans gay hoplohobe minority victim who is using your freedom of expression to try to help right a wrong, and you'll be promoted and become the next Youtube Sensation and run for Congress

Did I stereotype enough there to satisfy and piss off both camps at once? Yay?

Fucking thing is bollocks anyway. A social cancer that needs to be cut off. All of it. Facetwit, Youtube, Instadumb... burn them all and replace them with going outside and playing for a while. Ride a bike. Read a book under a tree. Or maybe even talk to people for realz.