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May072013
Syria Today: Remembering a Mass Killing
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2040 GMT: The Internet is Down.
Another watchdog, Umbrella Security Labs, reports:
At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.
Brown Moses has checked Google, and this is the result:
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However, the opposition still has plenty of ways to communicate. Satellite phones and other, more secret, methods have been established since the earliest days of the revolution. This blackout will have a significant impact on information coming out of Syria, but it's not a total blackout.
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Al-Bayada Massacre,
Baniyas,
Mihraç Ural,
Syria
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