<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Syrian government and Rebels have been blamed for the shutdown of internet and telecommunication services in its territory on Thursday. The tussle in between the Syrian rebels and the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad just outside Damascus resulted in cutting the access to its international airport, and the telecommunication lines.</span><br>
<br><a href="http://www.rayznews.com/syria-down-no-internet/">http://www.rayznews.com/syria-down-no-internet/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Dan York <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:york@isoc.org" target="_blank">york@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:31 AM, <a href="mailto:komaitis@isoc.org" target="_blank">komaitis@isoc.org</a> wrote:</div><br><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/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/a-stunning-chart-shows-syrias-internet-blackout/</a><br>
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<br>On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Rudi Vansnick <<a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyria.html</a><br>
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