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> So people in Brazil won't know about 9/11(maybe the biggest news event in recent history), for a day. how is it dangerous ?

Well, how many people in Brazil had relatives in NYC? Proportionally speaking not many, I'm sure. But some. And their news provider would have overwhelmingly let them down that day. If you move the same principle to an NYC news provider it would be a catastrophic service failure.

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I hate to be the Debbie Downer of spacetime and causality observation, but if I were in Brazil and had relatives in NYC, there's absolutely nothing that knowing about the 9/11 attacks occurring sooner could have done for me other than given me additional hours to wait anxiously for news from my loved ones.

Phone lines were jammed into the city (including cellular, because the circuits were saturated), and nobody was flying in or out of NYC. So unless someone in Brazil is secretly Clark Kent, there's 100% nothing they could've done to help or hinder the fate of the 9/11 victims in the hours after the attacks.

This was a single online news provider, among dozens of popular news outlets.

Yes, but I'm talking about this as a general principle (as is the person I replied to I assume, given that he said "people in Brazil won't know about 9/11", not "people in Brazil will need to find an alternative news source to find out about 9/11".

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