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Iran's Internet Shutdown Extends to 5th Day, Further Harming Economy

Michael Lipin

   Iran's shutdown of domestic Internet access as part of a crackdown on
   anti-government protests has stretched beyond four days, an
   unprecedented outage that has caused growing harm to the economy.

     Update: It has been 100 hours since [1]#Iran introduced a near-total
     internet shutdown cutting off the country from the rest of the world
     ð
     Digital rights are human rights: access must be restored to all
     Iranians [2]#Internet4Iran [3]#IranProtests
     ð°[4]https://t.co/1Al0DT8an1 [5]pic.twitter.com/bojhgdbpOX
     -- NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) [6]November 20, 2019

   London-based Internet monitoring group NetBlocks posted a tweet early
   Thursday in Iran, saying the "near-total" Internet shutdown had
   surpassed 100 hours since it began late Saturday.

   "Digital rights are human rights: access must be restored to all
   Iranians," the group added.

   Iranian authorities imposed the shutdown to stop opposition activists
   from communicating and posting online images of nationwide protests
   that erupted last Friday in response to the government's abrupt 50%
   increase in the subsidized price of gasoline. The protests had spread
   to more than 50 urban centers in Iran by Saturday, according to images
   received from Iran and verified by VOA Persian.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Internet4Iran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   3. https://twitter.com/hashtag/IranProtests?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   4. https://t.co/1Al0DT8an1
   5. https://t.co/bojhgdbpOX
   6. https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1197258315165839362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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