The date of the blackout was April 22, 2013.

For this reason, Global Voices is joining the Internet blackout on January 18, 2012.

Despite this news blackout, China s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner.

The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.

During the shutdown, only people using VPNs and the State House of Uganda were able to circumvent the blackout.

Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country s censorship.

Despite attempts at a total news blackout, against both citizen and mainstream media, news from Egypt continues to dominate the scene.

International support is overwhelming, as well as a clear defiance to back Egyptian protesters and make their voices heard despite the total information blackout.

The English language Wikipedia page on January 18, 2012, illustrating its international blackout in opposition to SOPA and PIPA copyright legislation in the US.

In light of the blackout, Global Voices will attempt to report from phone calls and other communications over the course of the next few days.

Netizens are being innovative in by passing the blackout, by contacting Egyptians directly and amplifying their voices for the rest of the world to hear their cry.

The blackout on social media in Uganda finally ended on May 15 after a ban for security reasons during the days following President Yoweri Museveni s inauguration ceremony.

While financial institutions tried to mitigate risks by bundling subprime mortgages, Fukushima s cooling system was able to cope with either a blackout and an earthquake or a tsunami.

GV Everybody knows that the blackout in Libya and the banning of foreign channels to enter the country, made the bloggers the most important source of news during the Libyan revolution.

A secondary mission was to conduct reconnaissance of Japanese ports, industrial sites, and airfields, which was easily conducted due to the lack of a blackout in the areas they flew over.

LJ user offnet complained that one of the reasons for the cell phone network blackout was a bureaucratic routine that required mounting an extra re translator cell stations even in extreme situations.

The aim of the hashtag is to draw attention to Syria's blackout after the Internet and communications with the outside world has been cut off for the third day in a row.

The blackout on the Internet in Egypt was supposed to thwart efforts to let the world know what was happening on the ground, as massive demonstrations against president Hosni Mubarak enter their fourth day.

Despite this news blackout, China s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner. For example, on Sina s microblog site, bloggers used pictures, euphemisms, and English or traditional Chinese characters to avoid censorship.

Government should take austere initiative to blackout such cases. If a person is found as a criminal and arrested in a rape case, then there should be only one punishment for him sentence to death.

Amid media blackout, citizens are taking their cameras out and filming what the state run media doesn't want you to see. Here's a video timeline of Bahrain protests as posted by blogger Chan'ad Bahraini 2.0 who comments

The news blackout imposed by Burma s military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.

Pro change or pro reform or anti government protesters assembled in different points across Iraq this morning, to be faced with police brutality, media blackout and a government crackdown we have all become so familiar with by now.

Following a near blackout of Internet service on January 27, it seems that the last remaining ISP Noor Group, which has approximately 8 of market share has now been cut off as well, leaving Egyptians without any form of Internet access.

Despite a total Internet blackout, reports continue to pour in. Here is the latest selection of 140 character messages from Twitter some from people on the ground, reporting live from Cairo. fustat R alaa justimage Today is the day.

The Day of Rage marks the fourth day in a row for Egyptians to demonstrate against president Hosni Mubarak's 30 year rule. Despite an Internet blackout, news continued to flow through satellite channels, with reports being rebroadcast on social networks by netizens. Manal Hassan tweets

This was the case last week in the Al Matrya teaching hospital in Egypt, where 4 babies and 2 adults on life support lost their lives due to a 2 hour blackout in the early morning hours and generators failed to kick in once again.Zeinobia writes

Iraq followed Uganda s lead in shutting down its Internet, though not for security reasons. The shutdown, which occurred in all regions of the country, coincided with official exams for secondary and high schools, which has led some to believe the blackout was intended to prevent cheating. It lasted for approximately three hours.

Danica Radovanovic ( DanicaR), writing for Australian blog network DejanSEO, discusses Wikipedia's decision to join the blackout, a decision that affects the site's diverse global community Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA.

Screenshot http spidersweb.pl As opposed to the web attacks on government websites, Antyweb called on his blog on January 23 for a protest in a cultured way, namely, a blackout and provided a script and an instruction on how to do it. In response, more than 900 websites decided to go dark and display an anti ACTA message.

Sunday mass is being performed there... yes, on Tharir! jan25 Once Egypt was back online last week after a 5 day Internet blackout, people were able to use social media to describe events as they really saw them. Videos like the ones showing a police van that slams into protesters in the streets of Cairo and police forces killing an unarmed Egyptian civilian, are being shared online.