Anonymous ID: 0a1489 June 2, 2019, 12:42 p.m. No.6654338   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?

 

"'I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

 

At 3pmET, it appears that Google Cloud (affecting Gmail, YouTube, SnapChat, Instagram, and Facebook among others) mysteriously (and almost unprecedently) went offline.

 

A systemic network outage may have just occurred.. #ES_F pic.twitter.com/M4yP3MN8jS

 

— 🅱️🅰️ (@Ba1221) June 2, 2019

 

Google Cloud Status Dashboard

 

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud Platform. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support. Learn more about what's posted on the dashboard in this FAQ. For additional information on these services, please visit cloud.google.com.

 

Google Compute Engine Incident #19003 We are experiencing a multi-region issue with Google Compute Engine

 

Incident began at 2019-06-02 12:25 (all times are US/Pacific).

 

Jun 02, 20 12:25 We are investigating an issue with Google Compute Engine. We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific.

 

Twitter is beside itself…

 

Google Cloud’s services are down. Also why Pokemon Go is down. pic.twitter.com/I7pvghIIej

 

— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) June 2, 2019

 

Did the government just test-fire its Internet kill-switch?

 

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