Syria's Largest City Just Dropped Off the Internet

[ClydeCoulter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/30/syrias-largest-city-just-dropped-off-the-internet/

[TER]

Lord have mercy on us sinners. The fear to be living in Allepo these days.

[enhanced_deficit]

It could have been worse (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425385-Afghan-village-that-was-wiped-from-the-map-with-25-tons-of-coalition-bombs&p=5195224&viewfull=1#post5195224).. had SWC liberated it.

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.renesys.com/2013/08/whats-next-for-syrias-internet/

-t

[JamesMan]

Barack Obama must be kicked out. :)

[Natural Citizen]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/30/syrias-largest-city-just-dropped-off-the-internet/

Hm. I was just telling Danke the other day...


Danke, do you remember the Iranian elections back in '09-'10? See, what happened was that the people took to the streets because they disagreed with the results of the election. They weren't rioting or anything but just protesting. Anyhoo...what happened was that the military/police forces came in and removed all of the reporters (should be of no surprise that the media there is tightly woven into government and basically controlled) and their cameras. They were gone. Guess what happened then. Well, I'll tell you what happened. They opened up fire on protesters. But guess what else happened. All of the many people who were protesting immediately pulled out their phones and took pictures of one woman who had been shot through the heart. It was instantly on twitter and all over the world. And so, there was no way for the media to write a completely differnt story behind what had happened that day since the people had the ability to document it the way that it really went down. You see?

So then with this patent and placed into the wrong hands there is now the means to not only remove a controlled media but also the means to make sure the wrong story still gets told the next day since it takes care of that little quirk of not being able to remove everyone's camera phone like they did with the reporters. Now they can just flip a switch....from any place on the globe, mind you.

Relevant reading... http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?419015-StartPage-s-Katherine-Albrecht-Interview-At-RT-On-Surveillance-And-Privacy&highlight=Katherine+Albrecht

[paulbot24]

"In November 2012, some 92 percent of national Syrian Internet traffic went offline as the regime was rumored to be mixing chemical weapon components, while 78 percent of traffic went offline in January when Assad gave a rare public address."

The slant of the article in the OP is to be expected, but it still makes me sick. So US foreign policy and decisions on whether to level a country are once again shown to be based on rumors.

[ClydeCoulter]

"In November 2012, some 92 percent of national Syrian Internet traffic went offline as the regime was rumored to be mixing chemical weapon components, while 78 percent of traffic went offline in January when Assad gave a rare public address."

The slant of the article in the OP is to be expected, but it still makes me sick. So US foreign policy and decisions on whether to level a country are once again shown to be based on rumors.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out why they think Syria needs to take the Internet offline to mix chemicals. Our government doesn't need to :D :mad:

[tangent4ronpaul]

Yeah, I was trying to figure out why they think Syria needs to take the Internet offline to mix chemicals. Our government doesn't need to :D :mad:

OH!, that's because of the OSHA Regulations attached to the chem mix kits. You can't have anything that could provide a source of ignition in the area when you mix them. You have to deal with these little snafus when you import nerve gas...

-t