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"National Shutdown" seems to be about this: https://nationalshutdown.org/ (found via https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5712766-nati...)

> national SHUTDOWN FRI JAN 30 NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. - The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.

So servers will still be running and websites, but won't be any people in offices, school, factories, shops, and so on.

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I had never even heard about this before today...

It was posted here but flagged and hidden.

As far as I've heard it's being suppressed on most social medias Americans use. I guess what was once "only possible in China" made it way overseas as well.

how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?

what social effect does this have if personal screen silos are Business As Usual while social interaction is halted?

how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?

Servers perform work. For people. My oven (KitchenAid) is a machine, yet has a setting that makes it non-functional during certain religious events that require people not to work.

Similarly, B&H Photo's web site won't take orders on the Sabbath. They'd rather take the revenue hit than violate their principles.

A foreign notion to the tech industry.

Chick-fil-A too, has this principle. I'd rather have no principles than stupid ones.

Your oven doesn't work on Sundays? That ranks high among the stupidest things I've ever heard.

So, how do you get around that? Constantly messing with the clock?

They said it was a setting.

No, I was clarifying because another commentator seemed to misunderstood that this shutdown was specifically about the EFF and potentially about their website, so probably others could have read it the same way too.

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