Argonath RPG - A World of its own
Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => World and local news => Topic started by: Reece on November 29, 2012, 05:47:01 pm
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Two US-based internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the internet nationwide.
A blog post on Renesys, a US company which tracks internet traffic worldwide, said that at 12.26pm in Damascus, Syria's international internet connectivity shut down completely.
Akamai Technologies also confirmed a complete outage.
The Syrian government has previously cut phone lines and internet access in areas where regime forces were conducting major military operations.
An activist near Damascus who gave his name as Abu Sham said the government had cut the internet in the southern neighbourhoods of the capital on Thursday.
Another activist, Abu Qais al-Shami, who lives outside the country, also said land-lines, mobile phone signals and the internet were cut in several of the capital's southern neighbourhoods, including Yarmouk and Tadamon, around noon.
He said he had been able to communicate with contacts in Syria by using satellite telephones.
Elsewhere in the capital, warplanes bombed Kafr Souseh and Daraya, two neighbourhoods that fringe the centre of the city where rebels have managed to hide out and ambush army units, opposition activists said.
The past two weeks have seen military gains by rebels who have stormed and taken army bases across Syria, exposing Assad's loss of control in northern and eastern regions despite the devastating air power he has used to bombard opposition strongholds.
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Totally unaceptable.
I supose this is information control.
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Do mobile networks still work? :poke:
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Totally unaceptable.
I supose this is information control.
That's likely correct. They'll probably use the excuse that it's to stop their enemies from communicating, but I doubt that war-torn groups on the ground are hopping on Facebook on their smartphones via Wi-Fi to plan the next attack.
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What the hell is happening to the world those days
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What the hell is happening to the world those days
I ask myself that fairly often too.
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Doesn't exist :S
Something like this is just an announcement of what could come next...
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God... This is ... Well, simply put, to avoid various explanations, stupid.
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Good side: World's newspapers will stop posting shit that is made by the militarised opposition and saying that these were ''innocent Syrians dying because of tyrant Bashar al-Assad". Actually, it's not going to stop. But it will be a little harder to do, and it might as well come in lower frequency.
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Good side: World's newspapers will stop posting shit that is made by the militarised opposition and saying that these were ''innocent Syrians dying because of tyrant Bashar al-Assad". Actually, it's not going to stop. But it will be a little harder to do, and it might as well come in lower frequency.
Indeed, however the opposite side of the fight may start increasing their own propaganda now because of it.
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2 words... That.. Sucks..
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Yet another addition to the numerous violations of human rights that have been committed so far. It's a good thing the Philippines decided to pull out all its overseas workers in Syria, or else we would now have no idea of what would be happening to them.
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inb4 Anonymous flips out
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inb4 Anonymous flips out
What can they do if the country has no internet.. :lol:
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What can they do if the country has no internet.. :lol:
Shut off the government websites, leak data and most of all stop the propaganda of the government to the rest of the world like government news sites.
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Shut off the government websites, leak data and most of all stop the propaganda of the government to the rest of the world like government news sites.
Yes because the "rebels" are quiet good and ostensible lads who don't use propaganda at all. :)
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Shut off the government websites, leak data and most of all stop the propaganda of the government to the rest of the world like government news sites.
Anonymous might be good, but they arnt good enough to steal military information from military databases..
Oh saying that, a British guy hacked into the US militarys databases searching for data on UFO's.. :lol:
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They already hacked into the president's private email so I am not sure about their capabilities.
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I believe they've already made a stance on this issue, although I haven't heard anything in the news lately regarding it.
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My parents always contact my family who living in syria
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My parents always contact my family who living in syria
Have they gotten any word on the internet situation there?
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Have they gotten any word on the internet situation there?
its still down my family are using vpn and a app called viber at there phone to
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its still down my family are using vpn and a app called viber at there phone to
That's very unfortunate. I'm glad they have found a way around it, though. :S
Keep us updated if you can.
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Anonymous can't do crap to be honest, other than taking a site down for a few minutes. Pro h4ck3rs.
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Anonymous can't do crap to be honest, other than taking a site down for a few minutes. Pro h4ck3rs.
They've done much more than that already in other places.
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on the other news now in Syria: Young people all over the country started talking to each other a lot more face-to-face. National overall health is on the rise"