<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Google is also showing the dramatic drop in traffic from Syria to their services:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&l=EVERYTHING&csd=1353997700482&ced=1354205460000">https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&l=EVERYTHING&csd=1353997700482&ced=1354205460000</a></div><div><br></div><div>And security firm Arbor Networks is showing a similar drop:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2012/11/syria-goes-dark/">http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2012/11/syria-goes-dark/</a></div><div><br></div><div>MANY articles are now appearing stating that all phone connections into the country have been terminated as well, along with various reports of increased fighting: <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/121129/p21#a121129p21">http://www.techmeme.com/121129/p21#a121129p21</a></div><div><br></div><div>Tons of tweets appearing, many using the hashtag #SyriaBlackout:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#syriablackout&src=typd">https://twitter.com/search?q=%23syriablackout&src=typd</a></div><div><br></div><div>Google sent out a tweet stating that this is why a free and open Internet is so important:</div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/google/status/274204766249291777">https://twitter.com/google/status/274204766249291777</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you're looking for a smaller stream of tweets than that hashtag, Andy Carvin is once again curating relevant tweets as he did during the Arab Spring earlier this year: <a href="https://twitter.com/acarvin">https://twitter.com/acarvin</a></div><div><br></div><div>Scary situation - I do hope that all within the country are okay through all of this,</div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:31 AM, <a href="mailto:komaitis@isoc.org">komaitis@isoc.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">The washington post just published a chart on the Syrian blackout: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/a-stunning-chart-shows-syrias-internet-blackout/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/a-stunning-chart-shows-syrias-internet-blackout/</a><br><br>Regards<br><br>Konstantinos<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Carlos M. Martinez" <<a href="mailto:carlosmarcelomartinez@gmail.com">carlosmarcelomartinez@gmail.com</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:21am<br>To: "Rudi Vansnick" <<a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be">rudi.vansnick@isoc.be</a>><br>Cc: "Chapter Delegates" <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Nationwide Internet blackout in Syria<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.orgANd">https://portal.isoc.orgANd</a> then these same guys get to influence the ITU...<br><br>Sent from a mobile device<br>Enviado desde un dispositivo movil<br><br>On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Rudi Vansnick <<a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be">rudi.vansnick@isoc.be</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Nationwide Internet blackout in Syria<br>Two US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the Internet nationwide.<br><br>BEIRUT —<br>Two US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the Internet nationwide.<br><br>Activists in Syria reached Thursday by satellite telephone confirmed the unprecedented blackout, which comes amid intense fighting in the capital, Damascus.<br><br>Renesys, a U.S.-based network security firm that studies Internet disruptions, says Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet at 12:26 p.m. local time.<br><br>Akamai Technologies Inc., another U.S-based company that distributes content on the Internet, also confirmed a complete outage for Syria.<br><br>Syria has partially cut Internet connections during the 20-month uprising against President Bashar Assad but a nationwide shutdown is unprecedented.<br><br><a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyria.html">http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyria.html</a><br><br><br>Rudi Vansnick<br>------------------ Internet Society Belgium ---------------------<br>President - CEO Tel +32/(0)9/329.39.16<br>rudi.vansnick@isoc.be Mobile +32/(0)475/28.16.32<br>Dendermondesteenweg 143 B-9070 Destelbergen<br>www.internetsociety.be "The Internet is for everyone"<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org<br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.org">https://portal.isoc.org</a></blockquote></div><br></body></html>