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FCC votes to spike sports blackouts

Touchdown!

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Texas football program defends controversial cotton celebration

The Internet sees all.

On by Ikenna Anyoku

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Syria drops off the Internet… again

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

On by Tim Sampson

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The Day We Fight Back, by the numbers

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

On by Jay Hathaway

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Everything you need to know about The Day We Fight Back

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

On by Jay Hathaway

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

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

On by Jay Hathaway

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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 by Kevin Collier

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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?

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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 by Kevin Collier

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Egypt is too dependent upon Google to actually block YouTube

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

On by Chase Hoffberger

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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 by Jordan Valinsky

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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 by Lorraine Murphy

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Internet access restored in Syria after 2-day blackout

Internet intelligence companies suspect the Syrian government was to blame.

On by Curt Hopkins

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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 by Curt Hopkins

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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 by Fernando Alfonso III

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