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<div class="">On Mar 18, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Dave Burstein <<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" class="">daveb@dslprime.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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I'm writing up the possibilities of working from home breaking the Internet, on which there is already a fair amount of data widely available. Nearly all the data and expert opinion - I'll post in a little bit - is that most broadband landlines networks are
having minimal trouble and that will likely continue. <br class="">
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That is also our conclusion, as outlined in David Belson’s post (which you mention later): <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/02/is-the-internet-resilient-enough-to-withstand-coronavirus/" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/02/is-the-internet-resilient-enough-to-withstand-coronavirus/</a> and
some of the coverage you can see listed here: <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/news/in-the-news/" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/news/in-the-news/</a> <br class="">
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But our homepage news currently writes<br class="">
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To be clear, this was in our our weekly “This Week in Internet News” article that was posted on March 16: <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/03/the-week-in-internet-news-coronavirus-shutdowns-expose-digital-divide/" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/03/the-week-in-internet-news-coronavirus-shutdowns-expose-digital-divide/</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">In Britain, broadband networks aren’t ready for millions of people working from home,
<a href="http://ABC14News.com" class="">ABC14News.com</a> reports. Many home-based Internet services in the U.K. still use old copper-based networks, and Internet users should expect congestion. <br class="">
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<div>Yes, I removed that paragraph of text just now from the article because the link it has to that ABC14News is now no longer available. “The account has been suspended.”</div>
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<div>Unfortunately it would seem that we got fooled by a bogus site.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">If we want to be trusted, I think we should have a policy of not printing any technical conclusion without someone technical having reviewed it.
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<div>We agree, which is why we do fact-check our articles before publishing. </div>
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<div>In this case, I own the error. Grant Gross, who wrote that article, sent it to us on Friday for our review as he usually does. </div>
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<div>With everything else going on right now, I did NOT review the article, as I usually do. Grant is a freelance journalist who has been writing in the technology space for 15+ years and who I’ve grown to trust over the years. Unfortunately, he got fooled,
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<div>My mistake for not reviewing it. And so I’ve now removed that text.</div>
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<div>Thank you for pointing out the error.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I quickly found several other insupportable claims.</div>
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Please send those along. As you note, we do not want to be publishing incorrect information.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Dan</div>
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