Should the internet be turned off for a week?

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:19pm #1

This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

biko · 22-03-2021 5:20pm

s8n · 22-03-2021 5:21pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

Any consideration for those who earn a living off internet based companies ?

or

The fact we get the majority of our entertainment & news from online sources ?

Whats the weather like in South Korea this time of year ?

MetzgerMeister · 22-03-2021 5:21pm

Yes, if only to stop threads like this appearing on boards :pac:

Zaph · 22-03-2021 5:24pm

My mental health is fine, thankfully, and I've no interest in contemplating anything right now thanks. If you want to take yourself off the internet for a bit, be my guest, but turning it off for everyone just so you can have a break is a tad drastic.

Staplor · 22-03-2021 5:24pm

Rather than being forced to do it, people can choose to do it.

Plug out your wifi, turn off data on your phone and you do it, it doesn't need anyone else but you.

ELM327 · 22-03-2021 5:24pm

No

If you can't access boards, porn or netflix during lockdown what the hell do they expect us to do

Mister Vain · 22-03-2021 5:25pm

The damage of such an event would go into the billions.

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:26pm

Staplor wrote: »

Rather than being forced to do it, people can choose to do it.

Plug out your wifi, turn off data on your phone and you do it, it doesn't need anyone else but you.

No, not enough of them will do it and it'd be good for them. Up to the government to do it.

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:26pm

s8n wrote: »

Any consideration for those who earn a living off internet based companies ?

or

The fact we get the majority of our entertainment & news from online sources ?

Whats the weather like in South Korea this time of year ?

It'd only be for a week, builders and farmers lose much longer to weather every single year and not a thing about it.

murpho999 · 22-03-2021 5:27pm

What a stupid idea.

If they internet is causing you mental health problems then get help.
Internet is not the problem.

The world economy would be in serious trouble in the modern world if it lost the internet for even a much shorter period than a weel.

Harry Palmr · 22-03-2021 5:28pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

I'm old enough to remember when RTE was more pious than a congress of Cardinals during holy week and it was just appalling to be beaten over the virtual head with Christian/Papist nonsense for days on end.

And no to switching the internet off - as if it were actually possible in the west.

odyssey06 · 22-03-2021 5:28pm

It's too late. The 'internet' is integrated into so many aspects of everyday life - not just social media - it would be chaos.

Zaph · 22-03-2021 5:29pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

No, not enough of them will do it and it'd be good for them. Up to the government to do it.

I'll decide what's good for me and what's not, thank you very much.

Surreptitious · 22-03-2021 5:30pm

I need it for work and my hobby so no. A person can choose to take time off from it though at any stage.

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:31pm

murpho999 wrote: »

What a stupid idea.

If they internet is causing you mental health problems then get help.
Internet is not the problem.

The world economy would be in serious trouble in the modern world if it lost the internet for even a much shorter period than a weel.

It's a great idea, the internet has half the world driven cracked. If the global economy is so dependent on the internet then society needs to cop on a little bit and get ready for when issues like the web going for a week emerge.

pwurple · 22-03-2021 5:31pm

You’d certainly feel it when distribution of goods and services stopped. When financial transactions stopped. Would it be brilliant when hospitals couldn’t get lab results anymore, when orders couldn’t be placed for goods, when nobody could get paid, when alarms and warning systems failed to connect...

I wonder what people think the internet is at times like these.

timmyntc · 22-03-2021 5:31pm

My fridge and toaster wont work without the internet. And my doorbell. And my car.

Soon I wont be able to iron my clothes without an internet connection

Amirani · 22-03-2021 5:31pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

The damage of such an event would go into the billions.

Yeah, would imagine it would cause quite a few deaths also.

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:32pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember when RTE was more pious than a congress of Cardinals during holy week and it was just appalling to be beaten over the virtual head with Christian/Papist nonsense for days on end.

And no to switching the internet off - as if it were actually possible in the west.

RTE used to finish at 11.30 at night and then everyone would go to bed, people were well rested for work the following day. Now they could be up till 2am looking at twitters.

odyssey06 · 22-03-2021 5:32pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

It's a great idea, the internet has half the world driven cracked. If the global economy is so dependent on the internet then society needs to cop on a little bit and get ready for when issues like the web going for a week emerge.

I don't think you fully understand the extent of what the 'internet' is when you say this.

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:33pm

Zaph wrote: »

I'll decide what's good for me and what's not, thank you very much.

The Government will really though, they make you drive on the left hand side of the road, take your earnings to give to poor people and make everyone send their kids to school. You'll do what you're told.

Mister Vain · 22-03-2021 5:34pm

Maybe just turn off social media for a week.

Surreptitious · 22-03-2021 5:34pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The Government will really though, they make you drive on the left hand side of the road, take your earnings to give to poor people and make everyone send their kids to school. You'll do what you're told.

Would you prefer if he drove on the wrong side killing people.
Go out and get some fresh air

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 5:37pm

Surreptitious wrote: »

Would you prefer if he drove on the wrong side killing people.
Go out and get some fresh air

Of course not. He was saying he'd decided, I'm saying he won't.

Tell me how · 22-03-2021 5:39pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The Government will really though, they make you drive on the left hand side of the road, take your earnings to give to poor people and make everyone send their kids to school. You'll do what you're told.

Is this another one of those completely batsh*t topics which someone will be referring to in 6 months saying 'The woke/libs/government/elite/illuminati wanted to turn off the interent back in March' as another example to suggest 'the country is f*cked.'

You seem to be simultaneously complaining about excessive government control, and calling for more of it.

Ubbquittious · 22-03-2021 5:39pm

I wouldnt mind to see it being turned off for a week. Be interesting to see the effect it will have on society as a whole

Wait till corona is over though

begbysback · 22-03-2021 5:41pm

Excellent idea my good man, I did propose banning covid discussions for a period of time, which got deleted here on China boards, they don’t like this kinda talk round these parts be careful op

odyssey06 · 22-03-2021 5:42pm

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I wouldnt mind to see it being turned off for a week. Be interesting to see the effect it will have on society as a whole
Wait till corona is over though

We should turn it off for an hour and see what breaks in case of future disaster.

Zaph · 22-03-2021 5:42pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The Government will really though, they make you drive on the left hand side of the road, take your earnings to give to poor people and make everyone send their kids to school. You'll do what you're told.

I was responding to your assertion that turning off the internet would be good for people. If the government decided to do it there's nothing I could do about it, but you're not the arbiter of what is good or not for other people.

tjhook · 22-03-2021 5:59pm

The internet is more than Twitter and Facebook.

There's an authoritarian tendency building in society these days. Looks like 1950s Ireland, with select people deciding what we all should/shouldn't be spending our spare time doing and what we should be thinking.

Feel free to turn off your own internet if you like, I'll make my own decisions.

Should the internet be turned off for a week?

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