Posted on 03/10/2019 3:16:19 PM PDT by bitt
In the midst of a second nationwide power outage in Venezuela, the vast majority of the country is engulfed in a massive internet outage. The first electrical blackout, which swept across the nation on Thursday, left Venezuela with only two percent connectivity amid the ongoing presidential crisis. Most of the country has been offline since Thursday with limited or no connectivity being reported across large swaths of the South American nation. The NetBlocks Group, a private internet watchdog organization based in the UK, reported on Saturday that 96 percent of the country was offline:
.. On March 4, NetBlocks reported that the Venezuelan government had blocked YouTube and SoundCloud and partially blocked Twitter.
“Twitter image and video servers and platform backends have been blocked in Venezuela from 3:10 PM UTC on state provider CANTV (AS8048) and its mobile network Movistar, as interim leader Juan Guaidó is set to arrive in Caracas after a tour of neighboring countries,” the organization explained. “The restrictions have been implemented as the leader calls supporters to the streets under the hashtags #4MVzlaALaCalle, #VamosVzla and #VamosJuntosALaCalle.”
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http://news.trust.org/item/20190310192645-05cu4/
Nerves fray, tempers flare as Venezuela blackout hits fourth day
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“....as interim leader Juan Guaidó is set to arrive in Caracas after a tour of neighboring countries,”
I hope there is super duper security for that brave man.
Without civilian communications, it’s hard for rebels to organize.
Anyone who still supports socialism/Marxism after all the death, destruction, and suffering this pathetic excuse of a political philosophy has brought about, is lost.
Socialism, boys and girls.
How convenient that people in the country cannot hear the news, and that if is no very difficult for them to organize. Well there is always the use of printed flyers being dropped by airplane.
I’m following Juan Guaidó on Twitter. Assuming he’s the Right Stuff, I hope he succeeds.
https://twitter.com/jguaido
I guess Maduro wants to find out exactly how much is enough.
The Bus Driver celebrated and thanked the Military for squashing a Coup ,LOL
Internet 80% down! That’s it he’s toast.
Q: What did Venezuelans use to light their houses before candles?
no electric, no interwebs, you'd almost think they were related
It must also be difficult for a police state accustomed to the internet and cell phones and electricity to maintain control without them.
Do you think this will hurt the introduction of their own Bitcoin currency?
They need a few of my Ham Op buddies.
WIFI can be low power (ie generators) and can be with battery computers systems. Home brew collinear vertical gain type antennas with converted home access point are effective, cheap and simple. From a hilltop, the range can be surprising. Reduce video, more text, with UHF/VHF remote base links from backbone.
Can be done. Does not have to be web based.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Collapses or was shut down?
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