Iran net outage first to effectively isolate a whole nation
(World News USA)

Internet connectivity is trickling back in Iran after the government shut down access to the rest of the world for more than four days in response to unrest apparently triggered by a gasoline price hike. The shutdown across a nation of 80 million people was the first to effectively isolate a modern, highly developed domestic network, experts say. That makes it a milestone in efforts by authoritarian governments to censor online communications. Other governments - such as Ethiopia´s - have imposed longer internet shutdowns. And Russia is headed in the same direction. But nothing to date equals Iran´s shutdown in logistical complexity, the experts say. `There is a desperate move to control all...