The other night after someone posted up an obvious AI generated video of Elon Musk titled, The REAL Reason Half The Internet Crashed Yesterday, my reply in the comments was what's he trying to say there because someone posted up a video last week that there was going to be an internet outage next week but I thought they had said it would happen on Oct 23, not the 20th. I looked on that site yesterday for that video but that site, when it comes to posting videos, it moves pretty fast, you could spend a couple hours looking and not find it. I had though, kind of a confusion trying to decipher his intent, his real purpose for posting what somehow was obvious since the cat got let out of the bag. One reason is that with Trump administration, coded public signaling, or what I like to describe as the truth hidden among all the hype, is typical. That may bring some to say Trump and Musk have parted ways, but that's just what they want you to believe. Other would be that someone just got lucky guessing as there are a lot of gloom and doom wanna be predictors out on the net, or last, a deflection away from something else they are trying to keep hidden so they infuse your mind with something else. I think the latter fits here quite find despite if the net was really going to go down, and they knew it, signaling would be a good guest also. Letting those who need to be in the know, know.
Why I chose the latter is because of the video's repetitiveness, he basically keeps saying the same thing over and over again for half an hour, that's why my comment was, what is he trying to say there. It's like ad companies, they say you have to advertise something seven times before people begin to act on it. I can envision that being true unless something is free. That repetitiveness kept bugging me. Exactly how, I kept asking myself, does not being able to pre-order my Starbucks to be ready for me make the list of why I should be terrified of what happened on the 20th. Then, like a lightbulb, it hit me, he was using this opportunity to say in a cordial way the number of steps backwards we should take to fuck ourselves in the face. But not only to that end, trying to deflect away from the reason it crashed, the ultimate incomprehensible of the incomprehensible to which we currently can't comprehend.
Musk: Stop what you're doing right now because two days ago something happened that should absolutely terrify you, and most people have no idea how close we came to a complete digital collapse. I'm talking about Oct 20th, 6:47 a.m., eastern time when half the internet just stopped working. Not slowly, not with warning, just gone and I need you to understand something before we go any further. This wasn't some minor glitch that affected a few web sites, this was a catastrophic failure that brought down airlines, banks, entertainment platforms, news sites, crypto currency exchanges, smart home devices and hundreds of other services that hundreds of millions of people depend on, every single days. Picture this, a women in Atlanta is sprinting through the airport terminal, her flight boards in 12 minutes, she's holding her phone frantically tapping the Delta app trying to check in, nothing happens, it won't load, she tries again and again watching that loading circle spin endlessly on her screen, she's gonna miss her flight to her fathers funeral because an app won't work. In London a man refreshes his Coinbase account, he has 47,000 in crypto currency sitting there and he needs to see it, needs to know it's still there, the app crashes again then crashes again, his hands are shaking. In Phoenix a single mother is trying to pay her babysitter through Venmo. The sitter needs to leave, she has another job to get to but the payment won't go through, they both just stand there there helpless, staring at error messages on a screen. In Taiwan a teenager can't access Snap Chat. In Germany someone's entire smart home security system is dead. In New York a trader watches his Robin Hood account flatline while the market moves and he's hemorrhaging money with absolutely nothing he can do about it. This was happening everywhere all at once. Disney Plus, Facebook, Hulu, Snap Chat, The Wall Street Journal, Starbucks, Fanduel, Coinbase, Venmo, major airlines, banking apps, news sites, entrainment platforms, even Amazon's own website, the very company that would turn out to be responsible for this entire catastrophe was down. Over 50,000 outage reports flooded in within the first hour alone, but that number, that's just the people who knew where to report it, who understood what was happening enough (there's the signaling I was talking about) to go file a complaint. The actual number of affected users was in the hundreds of millions globally, across every continent all experiencing the same inexplicable failure at the exact same time, and here's what makes this absolutely insane, what should make your blood run cold when you really think about it, it all happened because of one data center, one single facility in Virginia that most people never heard of, that they don't even know exist, brought the whole entire digital world to its knees. One building, one location, one point of failure and everything came crashing down. But before I tell you exactly what happened and trust me when you understand how one building in Virginia took down services across three continents, you're gonna question everything about the technology you depend on. I need you to do something for me, think back to yesterday morning, or the morning before that, were you trying to board a plane, standing in an airport stressed, watching the minutes tick by unable to check in, were you trying to order your morning coffee, that simple everyday ritual that starts your day and it was just broken, were you trying to see your bank account to send money to someone, to check if your investments were safe, and you couldn't, did your smart doorbell stop working, your thermostat, your security system. All those expensive devices you bought specifically for convenience and peace of mind suddenly reduced to useless chunks of plastics and metal sitting on your wall doing absolutely nothing. Comment below and tell me what you were trying to do."
The video doesn't end there, that's about the first ten minutes or less. Each time he goes back over what the established characters he used to detail these horrors, he embellishes upon them all the more. Adds a bit more horror, intensity, until your so hypnotized you're saying, if only I had that coffee, the world wouldn't seem like it's ending today. That's pretty good, because I don't drink coffee.
I kept saying to myself what's this all about, for the most part the things described are minor events, the worlds not standing still because you can't access Facebook, Snap Chat, read news articles, or keep yourself amused watching Disney. The money thing is a bit alarming and that's the part people should get. I admit I didn't at first, I kept thinking over instances of where they'd want to deliberately shut down the internet, or certain areas intended and why. I thought about the government shut down, DOGE having downloaded stuff in unsecure servers, maybe played around reprogramming, did an upload and needed to reboot the new system, I thought about the plot the secret service uncovered in NYC that could have brought down telecommunications to millions, thought maybe there was more to that and they needed a shut down to get rid of malicious intent. Finally I said, you are not going to know until you go look precisely where the server went down and who all it impacted, and there's where I found my answer. What I found made all the scenarios he gave look miniscule in comparison. That's why they want you out here worried about your Starbucks, your Disney, Hula, Venmo, Facebook, Snap Chat, because in reality, these are the least of your fucks when it comes to digitalization, for the most part what's described most people have already suffered through in power outages caused by weather related events, and they survived just fine, and they didn't even get the coffee because Starbucks was closed. So what gives here and what are they trying to hide?
The fact that they are forcing people in the UK to get digital ID's, and if they don't, they won't have a job. There are millions of people upset that all their personal information must now be digitalized and tied to their phones. Everything. With the UK government trying to quell their concerns by telling them that not every aspect of their lives with be on one server where nefarious actors could hack and have all their personal information. Their banking and payroll will be separate from their medical records, their pensions or welfare done on different servers, so forth and so on. This, according to politicians forcing this, will be safer than having your paperwork stored away at home. No more worries about people breaking into your house and stealing your identity. They don't want you to know that all that minor stuff listed about could be major stuff that you'd have to take a steps back from unless you wanted to be fucking yourself in your face. This gives them complete digital control over every faucet of your life, this is worse than a temporary power outage, you'll have access to nothing should the net go down, or they determine you said or did something wrong. Have an emergency, go to the hospital, can't prove who you are. Waited three months to get seen at a specialist, can't go because you can't prove who you are. Want to get on a plane but can't because you can't prove who you are. Want to go see a movie on the other side of town where they didn't lose electricity but can't because you can't access your wallet, so forth and so on.
Right now most think those things are just being forced upon people by dictators, or leaders in third world countries, like Vietnam, where 89 million people didn't want to so they cut them off from their banks until they change their minds. Australia the other day announced everyone will go to digital ID, again, using the excuse that people will be safer if they don't have to have proofs that anyone can copy and share among, like landlords, realtors, loan companies, welfare, etc., etc., the less paper shared, the less identify theft. They don't want you to know, your compulsion to digital identification isn't far behind, it's for the global good, get it or face the consequences like everyone else.
So what does this have to do with the internet going down? The UK compulsion started Saturday, Oct 18th, so all those in the UK who feared losing their jobs started filing the necessary online applications over the weekend, when Monday rolled around, millions of others started doing the same six hours to hours before the majority in other countries started to rise and shine. That meant that server in Virginia, that services the UK government website, got grand slammed on Monday, and that's what took the internet down.
Multiple banks, the UK's Government Gateway services - which is accessed through the Gov.uk website and includes things like HMRC, universal credit and pensions - mobile phone networks and video-chatting platform Zoom are among the websites that reported technical issues.
A UK government spokesperson said: "We are aware of an incident affecting Amazon Web Services, and several online services which rely on their infrastructure.
That's why midday Amazon said they had a lot of it fixed but still had a backlog to content with.
Just before midday, AWS said it had fixed the underlying problem, but said it had a backlog the system would need to deal with.
The UK also asserts that digital ID's will help stem the flow of illegal immigration and make it impossible for them to work there, but according to people in the UK, illegal immigrates already have to have digital ID to work in the UK, now they want to fire citizens from their jobs if they refuse to get the ID. If true, sounds sort of suspect to me, and to be realistic, just how far are people willing to trust a man who said a few months ago that people needed to take a big step back and go fuck yourself in the face and he would go to war on this issue (H1B visa) the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. I suspect where this eventually all ends, they'll have so much control over your life, where you go, where you work, what you buy, what you eat, what you borrow, what you owe, what you pay on time or not, and to be frank, you'll be paperless, and one touch of a bottom, you may find you don't even exist on this planet anymore, if all depends upon what they'll take issue with you about, and to me, that's too much control.