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Iran is Losing More than USD $1M GDP Daily from Blocking Internet and VPN Services
Last Sunday marked the 600th day of ongoing mobile Internet outages and service-blocking events, resulting in more than USD $720 million in Gross Domestic Product losses and 10,000 jobs.
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Tracking Internet Shutdowns in 2024, Q1
Pulse has recorded 22 intentional Internet shutdown events so far in 2024 that have affected Internet users across 12 countries.
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Five More Countries' Internet Names Secured
Anguilla, Ecuador, Eritrea, Iran, and the Philippines have joined 153 other countries to have DNSSEC-enabled ccTLDs.
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Tracking Internet Shutdowns in 2023
As of the end of 2023, governments and other actors across 18 countries intentionally disrupted Internet connectivity or blocked access to specific Internet services for their citizens.
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Ranking the Top 10 Longest Service Blocking Shutdowns
How does Ethiopia's recently-ended 158-day service-blocking shutdown compare to others ordered by governments around the world?
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Mongolia Joins Growing Number of Countries Reducing Openness and Resilience of the Internet
The Mongolian parliament is reviewing a controversial law that gives the minister of internal affairs the power to shut down access to the Internet.
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Internet Infrastructure Predictions for 2023: Ukraine Internet to Prevail, Central Asia to Increase Internet Resilience in Response to War
2022 will be remembered as a year in which conflicts and crises shaped our collective attitudes toward infrastructure and the Internet in interesting ways.
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Technical Multistakeholder Report on Internet Shutdowns Published
New report paints a fuller picture of increasingly sophisticated technical strategies to restrict Internet access in Iran.
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Multiple Internet Disruptions Observed in Iran
The recent Internet shutdowns in Iran adds to a long list of shutdowns in the country.
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Iran's Internet Shutdowns are Facilitated by Careful Attempts at Fragmentation of the Network
Iran's efforts at network fragmentation are going to be less reversible and set a dangerous precedent for other actors intent on exerting control over their nation's Internet.
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