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.

twowheelsonly · 22-03-2021 6:04pm

pwurple wrote: »

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.

I hear what you're saying but the vast amount of these services have only been internet dependent since around 2005.

It's all pretty ironic at the moment that people are complaining about Government control this, that and the next thing in regards to the Covid situation yet the main way people are complaining about this is via the one thing that essentially controls all of us.

tjhook · 22-03-2021 6:07pm

twowheelsonly wrote: »

It's all pretty ironic at the moment that people are complaining about Government control this, that and the next thing in regards to the Covid situation yet the main way people are complaining about this is via the one thing that essentially controls all of us.

The internet is a communication tool. You may as well be saying that the written word controls us.

EmmetSpiceland · 22-03-2021 6:11pm

Should be turned off, wiped completely and rebooted with much tighter restrictions.

beertons · 22-03-2021 6:15pm

Yes. But only if we are all allowed back to work.

Crush On You · 22-03-2021 6:16pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Should be turned off, wiped completely and rebooted with much tighter restrictions.

What you thinking? No pseudonyms? No filters for the ladies to make them look better than they are?

Fake Scores · 22-03-2021 6:19pm

They've never had to turn the internet back on again but if they're having trouble they can just Google....oh no wait

murpho999 · 22-03-2021 7:09pm

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.

It's not a great idea.

It's like saying 100 years ago that electricity 100 years ago was causing people stress as they read more bad news at night time due to having lights that it would be better to switch electricity off for a week to give people a week off.

Also like saying that all pubs should be closed forever because some people become alcoholics.

The world's economy is already dependent on the internet. Banking, company communications, travel, commerce etc all rely on it.

Even if Amazon was down for a few hours it would have repercussions.

It's nothing to with copping on, it's how technology has developed and it's here to stay.

Ted_YNWA · 22-03-2021 7:28pm

I need it for work & to procrastinate while working.

McGinniesta · 22-03-2021 7:40pm

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?

No.

What I am supposed to jerk off to?

McGinniesta · 22-03-2021 7:41pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I need it for work & to procrastinate while working.

I prefer to call it working while procrastinating.

sheesh · 22-03-2021 7:50pm

McGinniesta wrote: »

No.

What I am supposed to jerk off to?

just use your imagination like they did in the good old days.

22-03-2021 7:57pm

It would probably do some of the 18 hours a day, 7 days a week sorts over in the Current Affairs forum the world of good. And the lads who are addicted to online porn. Not saying there's an overlap between both groups.

Hyperbollix · 22-03-2021 8:19pm

The Elders of the Internet normally go with a quick 10 second off and on again to reset. Does the job. A week is drastic.

Anesthetize · 22-03-2021 8:25pm

Whatever you do, don't turn off stackoverflow.com

The software industry in Ireland would grind to a halt.

FromADistance · 22-03-2021 8:25pm

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?

Christ are you looking to start World War 3?

Mules · 22-03-2021 8:30pm

I'd rather not have a chance for contemplation :cool:

wonski · 22-03-2021 8:34pm

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?

Contemplation of what? Of sitting at home during lockdown without Internet access?

Great idea.

Sure you can go hike in the mountains or cycle around the house or watch RTÉ instead of Netflix.

If you have problem with Internet you can switch it off yourself

Sunny Disposition · 22-03-2021 9:23pm

Some of ye think I want it switched off for myself. That’s not the case, it’d be god for everyone.
Lot of things are going to pot since the internet became ubiquitous. Far fewer people going to mass for one thing, the spiritual dimension is getting lost.

lawred2 · 22-03-2021 9:25pm

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?

The old internet is a bit more than Facebook and Twitter

odyssey06 · 22-03-2021 9:29pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

Some of ye think I want it switched off for myself. That’s not the case, it’d be god for everyone.
Lot of things are going to pot since the internet became ubiquitous. Far fewer people going to mass for one thing, the spiritual dimension is getting lost.

Well for one thing you can get the mass on the internet.

And for another even if the internet had stayed in its 90s niche, mass attendance here would still be sinking like a stone. They didnt have the internet in Magdalene Laundries.

Should the internet be turned off for a week?

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