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Re:The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's mak... by auadix on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:37AM (#28839484)
Whatsapp is heavily used in third world countries as a way to do business. The impact, if not measure properly, will be overlooking how many of those business suffered during the outage. This could have a severe impact in the economy if Facebook quickly disappear. And this is coming from someone who hates Facebook and their entire social destruction of the world.
Re:The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's mak... by lpcvoid on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:40AM (#28839516)
Then it's good to have smaller, yet more common outages of Facebook properties, so that people are willing to migrate away from it in the long term while preserving their livelihood.
Re:The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's mak... by hkt on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:59AM (#28839725)
I've been wondering if all the companies who lost out could sue for compensation. Doctrines like detrimental reliance seem to come into play here. Is anything happening on that front?