2 US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off Internet nationwide

[The Straight Story]

2 US-based Internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off Internet nationwide

-Breaking AP (no link yet)

[pinboy3niner]

1. WaPo: Web monitor: 100 percent of Syria’s Internet just shut down

It appears that the Syrian government may have just taken a drastic measure it has conspicuously avoided over the nearly two years of fighting: cutting itself off from the Internet. Renesys, a Web-monitoring service, reported Thursday morning that sweeping outages in Syria had shut down 92 percent of the country’s routed networks. Shortly after, it updated to report that the remaining IP address blocks had gone down, “effectively removing the country from the Internet.” The “Syrian Internet Is Off The Air,” it announced.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/web-monitor-100-percent-of-syrias-internet-just-shut-down/

[The Straight Story]

2. Thanks for the link! (nt)

[nc4bo]

3. Hate to see this.

I always believed that this was something many powerful people in the U.S. dream of having the power to do on a nationwide basis.

People must never use the internet to communicate with others with differing POVs, ideas or a variety of cultures especially when it's inconvenient for that particular country.

Too much chatter.......gotta shut that whole thing down.