Internet Shut Down in Iraq in Response to Mass Protests

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Internet Shut Down in Iraq in Response to Mass Protests

By CircleID Reporter
July 15, 2016, 4:50 pm PDT Views: 6,904 Add Comment

The Iraqi government shut down internet access in the country for nearly four hours in response to mass protests in Baghdad. According to reports, the Internet access went down at 3.39 UTC, but was restored at 7.15 UTC. The outage was detected by internet performance company Dyn. Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Dyn: “There’s a history of outages in Iraq, they seem to do this more and more these days for things as trivial as sixth grade exams. ... There was just a UN resolution condemning internet outages, and that was slightly in response to previous Iraqi outages.”

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