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Counter point. I would wager people are more productive scrolling 5 minutes through a Facebook post then taking a 30 minute coffee break talking to various coworkers. I would hate this. Also if you're a developer how would you research something? No stack overflow? No access to forums to solve particular problems? Not sure this is sustainable.
Losing access to language reference docs would be huge. What are they gonna do, save them all locally? Maintain copies of those sites on the company intranet, at the company's expense? What happens when the next version of Python is released?
This is a real cut the nose the spite the face move. Google would hemorrhage developers.
I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn't sound like they're doing that.
I mean let's say they solve that part, sure. Let's go back to Google's original intent for this maneuver: they want to beef up "security."
Ars Technica's sub-title line says "You can't get hacked if you aren't on the Internet." That is utter nonsense. I'll take "What is E-Mail?" for 500 Alex. Surely they wouldn't block EMAIL right? How would they communicate with vendors, partners, governments, etc? Does Google think phishing emails, ransomware, etc don't work if you don't have internet access?
Actually, most email malware is staged now, so it wouldn't work. PDFs with the malware embedded get flagged, so PDFs with a link to the malware replaced them. Even most ransomware is via an external link.