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FCC votes to spike sports blackouts

Touchdown!

On Sep 30, 2014 by Aaron Sankin

Tech

Texas football program defends controversial cotton celebration

The Internet sees all.

On Sep 11, 2014 by Ikenna Anyoku

Internet Culture

Syria drops off the Internet… again

In a reccuring pattern, 95 percent of the country goes dark for nearly 7

On Mar 20, 2014 by Tim Sampson

Internet Culture News

The Day We Fight Back, by the numbers

The anti-surveillance protest topped 60,000 calls, 125,000 emails.

On Feb 11, 2014 by Jay Hathaway

Tech

Everything you need to know about The Day We Fight Back

What is it? Why now? What can I do?

On Feb 11, 2014 by Jay Hathaway

Tech

How to get your website ready for The Day We Fight Back

Here's how to use your site to protest mass surveillance.

On Feb 10, 2014 by Jay Hathaway

Tech

Syria’s largest city, beset by ‘barrel bombs,’ disappears from the Internet

It's not the first time Aleppo has dropped from the Internet.

On Dec 26, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Internet Culture News

The day the U.S. went dark

In a late Thursday afternoon in the summer of 2003, everything turned off. What have we learned in the decade that followed?

On Nov 12, 2013 by [email protected]

Tech

Syria’s largest city cut from the Internet as fighting intensifies

Internet security firm Renesys has announced that Internet activity from the city of Aleppo almost completely ceased Thursday evening.

On Aug 30, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Internet Culture News

Egypt is too dependent upon Google to actually block YouTube

Another appeal could quickly put the full ban back on the table.

On Feb 15, 2013 by Chase Hoffberger

Internet Culture News

5 companies that won Twitter during the Super Bowl blackout

These 5 brands took advantage of the power outage at the Superdome on Sunday to post some clever ads to Twitter.

On Feb 4, 2013 by Jordan Valinsky

Business Tech

Anonymous takes credit for blackout at the Superdome

It wasn't PBS or 49ers fans or George W. Bush, but Anonymous ... or so they say.

On Feb 4, 2013 by Lorraine Murphy

Internet Culture News

Internet access restored in Syria after 2-day blackout

Internet intelligence companies suspect the Syrian government was to blame.

On Dec 3, 2012 by Curt Hopkins

Tech

Activists try workarounds during Syria’s Internet blackout

Google has reactivated Speak2Tweet, and Telecomix has posted free dial-up numbers, but it's hard to say what's working.

On Nov 30, 2012 by Curt Hopkins

Tech

Syria loses Internet access as fighting continues in Damascus

The Damascus airport has also been shut down, and landline phone service is intermittent, as Syrian rebels clash with the Assad regime.

On Nov 29, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III

Tech

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