Kentik

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In the past 24hrs, Myanmar experienced a military coup d’état during which prominent government figures like Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi were detained and internet service was almost entirely disabled. Myanmar (also called Burma) is no stranger to internet shutdowns. In Cuba, such a mind shift would be … revolutionary.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. Famous internet outages. Uganda election shutdown.

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Kentik

JANUARY 27, 2021

The following is a joint blog post by Doug Madory (Kentik, previously with Renesys) and Peter Micek (Access Now). Ten years ago today, a team of computer scientists at internet monitoring firm Renesys began frantically documenting and reporting about a massive internet shutdown in Egypt.

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