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It's a developer oriented site. Why would a non-developer care that it's down? The main outlets want the attention of the majority - so we don't get alerts when HN, Github, etc go down or get attacked but we do when Facebook drops for 15 minutes

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If there was an attack on the distribution network of American manufacturer would it matter what they produce? The precedent set by doing nothing politically here is pretty scary to me!

(Of course, political conversations could be going on but not publicized.)

That's a very different scenario than what's actually happening, and it's very interesting that you jump to "American company, defend it!" instead of pointing out that it's a valuable tool worldwide.

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