#internetblackout — Public Fediverse posts

Is this where we’re headed too? Speculation that recent outages in Russia were tests for unplugging from internet & global community (similar to what’s already happening in Iran, also China). Population response: “Local media reported that retailers recorded a quick surge in demand for pagers, portable radios, stationary phones, media players and road maps, as the shutdowns gripped the capital.”
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“Mohiuddin Ahmed, associate professor in cybersecurity at Adelaide University … said internet blackouts could become a "successful" strategy for governments to control domestic political unrest.
"Internet blackouts are put in place so that everyday people can't know what's going on in the rest of the world." “

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow-internet-shutdown-russia-test-censorship/69rjp4wai

#Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
#controlDomesticUnrest #RussianPolitics

Tehran, Babol, Mashad, Hamadan, Kermanshah...and many more cities: There are masses on the street tonight all over #Iran. At the same time the regime has once again shut down the internet in order to prevent information to get in and out of the country. We know from previous protests that they kill the people in silence and darkness. Please be the voice of the brave Iranians- they are risking their lives for freedom.

#Iranrevolution #internetblackout #betheirvoice #BarayeAzadi