News You Should Have Read Elsewhere

News You Should Have Read Elsewhere

by Mike Masnick




China Cut Off From The Internet

from the that-can't-be-good dept

One of the main undersea cables that connects Asia to the internet has been cut and may take weeks to repair. Many people in China, Taiwan and Singapore are suddenly finding that they can't access international sites, or that they're painfully slow. Isn't it nice to see that we're still relying on systems that basically have a single point of failure?

1 Comments | Leave a Comment..

 
 

Reader Comments (rss)

(Flattened / Threaded)

  1. Feb 9th, 2001 @ 10:03pm

    um..

    by mhh5

    I guess this also means that we can't access Chinese sites either... But I guess no one really cares?

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

Add Your Comment

Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here
Get Techdirt’s Daily Email
Plain Text HTML Save me a cookie
  • Plain Text: A CRLF will be replaced by break <br> tag, all other allowable HTML is intact
  • HTML: No formatting of any kind is done without explicitly being written in
  • Allowed HTML Tags: <b> <i> <p> <a> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <hr> <tt>
Close
Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here
Get Techdirt’s Daily Email
Plain Text HTML Save me a cookie

Search Techdirt
And now, a word from our Sponsors..



Subscribe to Techdirt's Daily Email Newsletter

Techdirt's Daily Email Newsletter

Related Stories
Close
E-mail It