http://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2025/09/06/internet-connections-from-india-and-pakistan-cut-the-world-rejoices-n2418562
Some tragedies are blessings. Here's a little levity for your Saturday night. Microsoft confirms that [u]internet cables were cut[/i], severing internet communications from Pakistan and India.
Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) ~ BREAKING - Massive internet connection problems are being reported in parts of Pakistan and India after Microsoft confirmed that multiple subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea.
6:11 PM · Sep 6, 2025
People are OK with this.
Oh, does that mean all those scammers are going to have a harder time harassing Americans over the Internet - and maybe even (HOPEFULLY!) the telephone???
Virgil (@VirgilsQuill) ~ THAT's why the timeline has gotten so much better!
Coffee and Grit (@CoffeeNGrit) ~ Well, that explains the lack of spam calls!
James (@jden1035) ~ Cutting them off from the Internet is doing the world a service.
This seems to be the general sentiment.
Adam Nutter (@AdamNutter) ~ There is about to be a giant posting delay from all the “India is actually a great ally of ours” accounts.
It would be nice if India was a great ally of ours, but it always seems to be a one-way street - they sell vast sums of stuff in our markets, but we sell very little in theirs.
Emergent Perspective (@_emergent_) ~ What if @elonmusk has been using @grok to train sharks for a secret mission ...
We're not ones for conspiracy theories, but we kind of hope this one is true.
Here's a proposal ...
We're listening.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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