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Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week
An anonymous reader writes "Another undersea cable was taken offline on Friday, this one connecting Qatar and UAE. 'The [outage] caused major problems for internet users in Qatar over the weekend, but Qtel's loss of capacity has been kept below 40% thanks to what the telecom said was a large number of alternative routes for transmission. It is not yet clear how badly telecom and internet services have been affected in the UAE.' In related news it's been confirmed that the two cables near Egypt were not cut by ship anchors." Update: 02/04 07:13 GMT by Z : A commenter notes that despite the language in the article indicated a break or malfunction, the cable wasn't cut. It was taken offline due to power issues.
It is quite clear the cables were cut to silence the Middle-east-wide shock and discussion regarding the atrocities in Gaza over the past two weeks. Furthermore, cutting the internet prevents an Anne Frank-like figure from communicating these atrocities to the rest of the world. Sure, a modern Palestinian Anne Frank might eventually communicate these events, but by then, a large section of the Gaza concentration camp members will likely have been exterminated.
You're a fucking idiot.