Activists from Shut The System sabotaged telecommunications cables leading to far-right lobbyists’ headquarters at 55 Tufton Street on Saturday 4 January.
They passed a note under the door saying this:
The greed-fuelled climate denialists and racists in this building are silencing warnings about the lethal risks of climate change while sewing hatred and division across our communities, all to prop up their wealthy, corporate friends and funders.
Shut The System does not tolerate murder and racism. We have cut off your Wi-Fi in defiance against the millions of deaths on your hands.
How does cutting fiber jam wifi? 😄 Has WiFi become synonymous with “the internet”?
No external connection means no internet which means WiFi is pointless. Most devices use WiFi not ethernet.
Most businesses still have resources on the local network (printers, shares, …), which makes wifi useful.
Besides, they don’t have a mobile backup solution using 4G/5G? We had that years ago and I mean that as in business and private individuals, provided right in the modem from the ISP.
We have that as well provided from our ISP
Pretty sure it’s an English thing, their telco companies call the internet services they sell WiFi. I think it’s because a WiFi connection is all the end user typically sees. Victorian, Georgian and post WW2 ghetto houses aren’t easy to install new cabling into.
It’s not a synonym, it’s just that these guys are idiots.
To be clear I agree with what they did but I wish they’d run the note past someone with technical skills, because now they just sound stupid. Although so are the occupants in the building so perhaps the note was aimed more at their intelligence level.
No I’m not saying it’s an English language thing, I’m saying it’s English like an England thing. Everyone in England calls their internet “the WiFi”. They say that because their internet providers market it to them like that and in general they typically rely on wireless (WiFi) in their homes because their houses were built in a time when they were barely equipped to handle electrical cabling let alone ethernet cabling.
The article is from the UK you can tell from the English house and the English police office out the front.
The only people who call Wi-Fi internet are people that don’t know what either are.
Technologically electorate people can be found all over the world but it’s not evidence of a language thing.
I mean you are clearly in the UK (or at the very least registered with a UK instance for some other obscure reason) so surely you’ve noticed that almost everyone there outside of those working in telecoms and IT calls the internet “The WiFi”? I agree that the only people who confuse the two terms are technologically illiterate, but sadly that is a significant number of people. I worked there in telecoms for 5 years and it was one of the first things I noticed when talking to people with anything related to internet services.
Yes, kids are calling ethernet “wifi-cables” now.
I always called them Wide Area Network Kables.
“Airthernet”?
I’ve read EU directive proposals using the word WiFi and the internet interchangeably.