[Serious] How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

[Mave]

Everything is down. No facebook, youtube, twitter, skyping,..



It would certainly make a very interesting experiment.

Personally I genuinely believe that it would bring people together more, people that spend their whole evenings inside normally would come outside.
People would interact more IRL.
I actually think this would be better for mankind, (not information-wise, but socially-wise)
Then again I don't think I'd volunteer for an experiment like this because I think I might show some withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Stybar]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

Panic the first evening, total global apocalypse the next. Everything is run by internet these days Mave, EVERYTHING
Stock exchange would crash and die, governments would be seriously hindered in communication, news would be slow as fuck. I don't think I'd like to live in a world with no internet, and not just because I can't browse anymore.

 

[Favy]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

Everyone would just riot with signs saying "BRING BACK THE PORN"

 

[SovareZza]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

Everyone would just riot with signs saying "BRING BACK THE PORN"

This.

Honestly, after the entire apocalypse, I think the world, although it would be plunged back into a strange world, would be better.

 

[Impulse]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

I'm pretty sure some governments have contingency plans for this. Since it is only the internet, the radio and TV should still work. Governments would start emergency broadcasts I guess. Telephone lines would still be available. So communicating with other countries/people is not that big of an issue. Would be quite some economic damage, but I'm pretty sure nothing catastrophic.

 

[Panki]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

Thank god the internet is not centralized. Fuck yeah for TCP/IP!

 

[novokyiv]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

It would be horrible for those in countries where the Internet is the last bastion of free speech - countries under civil war, countries with heavy internal problems...; the people there would be unable to organise any protests, nor communicate with anyone outside the country.

 

[Mave]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

It would be horrible for those in countries where the Internet is the last bastion of free speech - countries under civil war, countries with heavy internal problems...; the people there would be unable to organise any protests, nor communicate with anyone outside the country.

Never thought about it like that before.

 

[novokyiv]

Re: How would society change if all internet would be down for one month?

It would be horrible for those in countries where the Internet is the last bastion of free speech - countries under civil war, countries with heavy internal problems...; the people there would be unable to organise any protests, nor communicate with anyone outside the country.

Never thought about it like that before.

It requires a little bit of thought and perhaps experience. Most of the protests in Eastern Europe and the Middle East that were done on a large-scale were organised through Facebook, Twitter etc.
Without those ways, the government would be much more effective in supressing and controlling its citizens in given country X that is approaching totalitarianism or is already under it.
A turbulent region works on turbulent ways. Even today, there are countries where Facebook is blocked whenever somebody that hurts the regime showed up. Just recently, Turkey blocked SoundCloud because a person posted on that website some phone calls which Erdogan took part in - phone calls, which, I believe, would in part prove their corruption.
It goes on and on and on and it has no end. A vicious cycle. Block, unblock.
"All we want is the good of our citizens."
It's horrible.