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The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download You. Tube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown. This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http: //www. In this article, I'm going to explain how a pandemic outbreak could theoretically bring down Wall Street.

But to get to that, you'll first need to find out what the GAO said in its curious report (see below). Parts of this article are presented as satire, but the underlying facts quoted here are all true and verifiable (links are provided to all sources). This report in question is entitled, "GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC" and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness. As the report explains: In a severe pandemic, governments may close schools, shut down public transportation systems, and ban public gatherings such as concerts or sporting events. In such scenarios, many more people than usual may be at home during the day, and Internet use in residential neighborhoods could increase significantly as a result of people seeking news, entertainment, or social contact from home computers. Concerns have been raised that this additional traffic could lead to congestion on the Internet that would significantly affect businesses in local neighborhoods, such as small doctors' offices or business employees attempting to telework by connecting to their employers' enterprise networks. Can Hulu, Twitter and porn destroy Wall Street?

To translate this concern of the GAO, what they're saying is that if too many people stay home and use the internet, Wall Street might not be able to function smoothly. Therefore, in order to protect Wall Street (because as you know, our government does everything possible to bail out Wall Street), the feds might need to shut down some popular websites. But where, exactly, is all the bandwidth usage really coming from? Twitter uses virtually no bandwidth, given that it's a short, text- based messaging service. Text articles also don't use up much bandwidth. In terms of clogging the internet's "series of tubes" (to use a hilarious term coined by a U.

S. Senator), the real culprits are videos. While a Twitter text message might be less than 1k in size, a typical video is 3. MB, or roughly 3. Twitter message. So where, exactly, are people getting video downloads? The most popular non- porn video destinations today are My. Space. TV. com, You.

Tube. com, Live. Leak. Yahoo Video and Hulu. But as it turns out, even these highly popular websites may not account for most internet traffic. P2. P traffic uses the most bandwidth. According to this Tech. Republic post (http: //blogs.

P2. P traffic. Anywhere from 4. P2. P traffic means "peer to peer." It's file- sharing traffic happening between two "peered" computers rather than from one central server to many individual computers.

You. Tube, for example, is a centralized video site that serves videos directly to millions of computers. Watch Lighthouse Online Metacritic. The Pirate Bay, on the other hand (www. The. Pirate. Bay. Peer- to- peer traffic carries the latest movies, music albums, television shows, ebooks, podcasts, graphic novels and even.. A search on The Pirate Bay today shows downloads for Heroes Season 4 Episode 7 (3.

MB), the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (7. MB) and even a bootleg version of the new Windows 7 operating system (3. GB). These files are obviously not small. When peered computers share these files, it requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth. Porn represents a sizable percentage of all P2. P traffic. Although "official" statistics were difficult to find, according to Top. Ten. Reviews. com (http: //internet- filter- review.

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Importantly, this page claims that 3. P2. P traffic is porn- related. Where am I going with all this? Well, if you consider that roughly 5.

P2. P, and that roughly one- third of all P2. P traffic is porn, then it quickly becomes obvious that if the GAO's pandemic clogging of the internet becomes a reality, porn might bring down Wall Street! What this also means, however, is that cutting off access to specific websites (like You. Tube) will likely do very little to free up internet bandwidth. To have any real impact on reducing bandwidth usage, the U. S. government would need to run public service ads begging internet users to stop downloading porn.

The problem with that approach is that people who pirate porn are probably not the kind of people who obediently follow the advice of the feds. Policing the internet. When it comes to saving Wall Street during a pandemic, the feds will stop at nothing.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pulls out all the stops to make sure America's legalized financial gambling centers (Wall Street) keep on churning out the scams. This requires protecting the critical infrastructure of Wall Street. As the GAO report explains: "DHS is the lead federal agency for two critical infrastructure sectors.. Internet. Specifically, the entities within DHS responsible for coordinating national efforts to promote critical infrastructure protection activities for those sectors are the National Cyber Security Division and the Office of the Manager of the National Communications System (NCS), respectively.

Although the vast majority of Internet infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector, federal policy recognizes the need to be prepared for the possibility of debilitating disruptions in cyberspace. DHS is the central coordinator for cyberspace security efforts and has responsibility for developing an integrated public- private plan for Internet recovery."The internet will be critical during a pandemic, the report goes on to say, because it will be an important vehicle for the government to distribute messages to the public (such as "Go get your vaccines.." or "Report to the nearest quarantine center"). It will also be important because millions of people might need to continue their work at home rather than showing up at the office and sneezing all over their coworkers."Increased use of the Internet by students, teleworkers, and others during a severe pandemic is expected to create congestion in Internet access networks that serve metropolitan and other residential neighborhoods.

For example, localities may choose to close schools and these students, confined at home, will likely look to the Internet for entertainment, including downloading or "streaming" videos, playing online games, and engaging in potential activities that may consume large amounts of network capacity (bandwidth)."The solutions, says the GAO, is to tell companies to send workers home and hope they get something done there: "Furthermore, the government has recommended teleworking as an option for businesses to keep operations running during a pandemic."This part of the GAO report is particularly hilarious because, as every employer knows, when you give employees the ability to work from home, many of them spend the day at home goofing off and downloading porn! It's true: Most internet porn surfing activity occurs during work hours (9 to 5), and all those corporate porn filters that people have at work don't exist on their home computers.