Türkiye is the Turkish spelling of Turkey. Notice that Greece, China, and Thailand are also labeled in their native languages. Why they're the only three to get such treatment I have no idea.

As for it being an effort to tap those lines, that doesn't make sense to me. They could easily be tapped elsewhere and if the owning companies were involved (as the article implies) then they could probably do it in such a way to have no unexplained downtime.

But what do I know. I still think we landed on the moon so I'm obviously credulous.

Coincidentally (or not), I've been having slow interwebs for a few days. Today it didn't want to load e-mail.

So, if the tubes collapse, and take celphones with them, how fast can we revert back to landline, letters, and Indian runners? And when the mandatory digital switchover happens with television, and this scenario occurs, how do we disseminate information?

srsly. I'm askeard.

Radio, DirecTV, Newspapers, Satellite Phones, XM, Sirius.... There are a lot of ways to get information out.

Also even if every single undersea cable was cut it would still not "collapse" the tubes. Here in the USofA things would be fine. In fact performance might even improve if all the traffic from those foreign devils downloading naughty photos of our women was blocked.

Well, radio (for now), and newspapers aren't digital, although a newspaper is hardly instant and late-breaking. My concern gets raised over things like the NSA having secret rooms in ATT and such. A narrowing of the information pipeline, if you will, that can be easily controlled. I'm not worried about the foreign devils as much as I'm afraid of the homegrown ones.

I'm having trouble following you on this one...

Are you worried about:

A) The collapse of the Internet and/or other means of communications.
B) The monitoring of your communications by entities foreign or domestic
C) The Clovefield Monster?

I am worried about the collapse of teh intrawebs and the Cloverfield monster.... so?

I noticed (for whatever it's worth) that in the comments section, one of the responders put:

Teh "funny" answer: All of them!

The real answer: Not "A", but close. The control of the Internet and/or other means of communications, by enemies both foreign and domestic. I don't think there's enough manpower to monitor everything, therefore, just control the flow.

But what happens when the Cloverfield monster and the Lost monster meet. And what if they... shudder... mate?

There's a LoT monster?!?