Iran`s digital shutdown: other regimes `will be watching closely`
(The Guardian Iran)

Blackout is part of growing trend of governments shutting citizens off from the worldAccess to the internet is gradually being restored in Iran after an unprecedented five-day shutdown that cut its population off from the rest of the world and suppressed news of the deadliest unrest since the country´s 1979 revolution.The digital blackout that commenced last Friday is part of a growing trend of governments interfering with the internet to curb violent unrest, but also legitimate dissent. Continue reading...