[liberationtech] US State Department comments on Internet Shutdown

[André Rebentisch]

Am 29.11.2012 22:28, schrieb Joel Harding:
> MS. NULAND: We have been learning from local coordinating councils
> inside Syria over the last day or so that the regime does appear to be
> resorting to cutting off all kinds of communication – cellular
> networks, landlines, as well as internet service across the country –
> ... Obviously, we condemn this latest assault on the Syrian people’s
> ability to express themselves and communicate with each other. And it
> just, again, speaks to the kind of desperation of the regime as it
> tries to cling to power.
Interesting. Do they have any evidence that cutting connectivity was a
deliberate decision? If so, what is the rationale?

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