24 August 2011

Syria opened the Internet to close down rebellion | #OpSyria #Syria #arabspring

Moves to open the Internet in Syria were to enable the government to control citizens on a scale not attempted before.

In an attempt to calm the general populace from doing another Libya, the Syrian government promised to relax Internet restrictions. It seemed to do this by unblocking popular social networking sites.

However it turned out that it was luring the online revolutionaries into a well prepared battleground staffed by the Syrian Electronic Army.

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