[Chapter-delegates] Nationwide Internet blackout in Syria

[Dan York]

Google is also showing the dramatic drop in traffic from Syria to their services:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&l=EVERYTHING&csd=1353997700482&ced=1354205460000

And security firm Arbor Networks is showing a similar drop:

http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2012/11/syria-goes-dark/

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: http://www.techmeme.com/121129/p21#a121129p21

Tons of tweets appearing, many using the hashtag #SyriaBlackout:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23syriablackout&src=typd

Google sent out a tweet stating that this is why a free and open Internet is so important:
https://twitter.com/google/status/274204766249291777

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:  https://twitter.com/acarvin

Scary situation - I do hope that all within the country are okay through all of this,
Dan


On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:31 AM, komaitis at isoc.org wrote:

> The washington post just published a chart on the Syrian blackout: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/a-stunning-chart-shows-syrias-internet-blackout/
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> Regards
> 
> Konstantinos
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> On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick at isoc.be> wrote:
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>> Nationwide Internet blackout in Syria
>> Two US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the Internet nationwide.
>> 
>> BEIRUT —
>> Two US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the Internet nationwide.
>> 
>> Activists in Syria reached Thursday by satellite telephone confirmed the unprecedented blackout, which comes amid intense fighting in the capital, Damascus.
>> 
>> 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.
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>> Akamai Technologies Inc., another U.S-based company that distributes content on the Internet, also confirmed a complete outage for Syria.
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>> Syria has partially cut Internet connections during the 20-month uprising against President Bashar Assad but a nationwide shutdown is unprecedented.
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>> http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyria.html
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