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Per the activists:

The finance and insurance sectors of the economy have the power to make a significant difference. Without funding or insurance, fossil fuel companies cannot continue to operate or expand. Banks and insurance companies have clients other than fossil fuel extractors, they can continue to exist without this custom and so our demands aren’t unreasonable.

Banks and insurers have responded to campaigners’ demands by taking the tiniest of steps, however there is a serious discrepancy between what they are doing and what they must do in order to prevent catastrophic levels of global warming.

Now we are escalating to demonstrate that we – the public – will not accept this institutional and corporate support for climate breakdown.

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 76 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahem 🤓👆They still have wifi, there is just no internet connection.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That depends a fair bit on how corporate networks are set up. It's very easy to have a central authentication server that the base station can't reach anymore, so nobody can connect to the corporate wifi.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But the AP is still broadcasting so the WiFi never left it just won't provide data. Previous post is poking fun at bad journalism and oversimplifying the facts of the story. They cut data lines.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, and that's a very effective way to disable most offices that depend on communication with customers. Impact is very much the same.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as Fiber PoE

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, I missed that. My statement would only hold true if someone specifically cut the Ethernet cable between the AP and whatever was supplying PoE.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

What is you used RADIUS, and the auth server was remote?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hope big banks can at least manage to have redundant networking between their sites if they are set up like that.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

Now their wireless connection is truly wireless.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 2 weeks ago

I was gonna say that dropping internet to some branch office makes no difference for oil but loyds of london. ok yeah I can see that.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I was not aware of the existence of Shut the System and I like their approach, so I find it's great you included their link to your post @silence7@slrpnk.net

Edit: Did a sort of repost to In Person Activism@slrpnk.net