Iran Plunges Into Internet Blackout
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Simon Migliano, who compiled the Top10VPN shutdown report, told me “Iran’s current nationwide blackout is a blunt instrument intended to crush dissent, starkly different from the sophisticated, slow-burn digital censorship we’re seeing in Russia.”
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Two entire Ukrainian regions were plunged into darkness in freezing temperatures late on Wednesday, leaving more than 1mn households without power, after Russian drone strikes triggered one of the biggest energy blackouts of the war.
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Blackout occurs in Zaporizhzhia Oblast at night
A blackout occurred in Zaporizhzhia Oblast at 02:11 on the night of 10-11 January, leaving the region completely without electricity. Power supply was later restored.
The nationwide shutdown of the internet in Iran during anti-regime protests remains in place and has now lasted more than 60 hours, the internet monitor Netblocks says.
Protests continued in Iran on Saturday despite a complete internet and communication shutdown, with people holding posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and raising slogans against him. More than 60 people have been killed in the unrest so far.
Due to concerns over a lack of funding, the organization, which launched in 2007, issued its first warning back in November that programming could be pulled offline as well.
Electricity was restored to southwestern Berlin on Wednesday after a suspected arson attack on a power station by leftist activists caused a blackout for tens of thousands of households, the longest outage in the German capital since World War Two.
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