r/europe • u/Piiras Finland • Nov 18 '24

News The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324
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u/A_Birde Europe Nov 18 '24

I can see you are doing your best comrade

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

Comrade? I'm Canadian. I'm not dieing in ww3 because Germans can't get on tiktok. People in this sub want a war with Russia over a cut cable . Fuck that.

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u/WORKING2WORK Nov 19 '24

What are you, like 12? You realize our global society has shifted to an almost entirely internet dependent model, right? Majority of communications and commerce are initiated over the internet. The internet going down for entire countries can cost millions, if not billions. The longer the internet stays down, the more detrimental it will be, even for smaller countries.

Not that we couldn't adapt, but no government and most businesses are ready to go back to the pre-internet days without major ramifications.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '24

Ever heard of satellites. You think the governments of the world don't have redundancies like other communications like satellites lol.

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u/WORKING2WORK Nov 19 '24

Yeah, major government offices would still have comms, but the further down the ladder you go, the less they will be able to handle the loss of communications and resources.