Article note: I've been expecting "Cheap multirotor with a shrapnel-throwing explosive device" to become a major fixture in small-actor warfare for years. Here they are.
Article note: Oh shit, this is the closest to "The Internet is broken" I've seen in a while.
I just spent half an hour nervously trying to figure out why my webserver and house weren't talking, discovered that if I went through an intermediary they could, _then_ checked the news.
Looks like CenturyLink (formerly Level3) is closing routes but leaving them in their BGP tables, so lots of traffic is going on dead routes through the backbones.
Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.