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Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed. Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld. Others argue that the U.S Internet infrastructure is too big and diverse to be subject to the kind of total shutdowns witnessed in the Middle East recently. Groups such as Demand Progress and the Computer and Communications Industry Association have in the past expressed alarm over proposals to give the president the power to shut down portions of the Internet in an emergency. The groups fear that the same thing could happen in the U.S.
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The tendency by governments, especially in the Middle East, to shut down the Internet in times of crisis has evoked considerable concern among civil rights groups here in the U.S over free speech issues. That block was lifted relatively quickly, though.īack in 2009, the Iranian government blocked Internet access for the same reasons. In February, Libyan officials resorted to the same tactic to in an apparent bid to stop protesters from getting news and communicating with one another. The shutdown comes amid growing civil unrest - thousands of people took to the streets today to protest the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly tortured and killed by Syrian security. In January, Egypt imposed an unprecedented Internet blockade for several days in response to growing civil unrest. Syria's move to pull the plug on the Internet is reminiscent of the actions taken by other governments in the region recently.
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The death of the boy and several other children recently has prompted calls for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad.
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The shutdown comes amid growing civil unrest - thousands of people took to the streets today to protest the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly tortured and killed by Syrian security officials.
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