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		nir on Nov 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Syria Turned Off the Internet I wonder what caused them to do that. It doesn't seem like the regime's been pulling any punches so far, and the various YouTube evidence etc didn't seem to cause any increase in outside pressure. Why do it now?

brown9-2 on Nov 30, 2012 [–]

Perhaps things are about to get even worse and the regime wants to eliminate a source for news getting out of the country.

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