On the subject of the long outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Vice.com writes:
We should not let one company run this much of the world. Six hours is too long for something as important as WhatsApp to be down. In the West, we saw those six hours as a comfort. We were free from something many of us didn’t use much anyway. In the rest of the world, it was a reminder of how much power one company in the United States has over their lives.
“For Much of the World, Facebook Going Down Is a Disaster, Not a Joke“
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