Notices by NetBlocks (netblocks@mastodon.social), page 2

⚠️ Update: A day has passed since #Bangladesh imposed a national internet shutdown amid student protests and a deadly crackdown.

Metrics show connectivity flatlining at 10% of ordinary levels, raising concerns over public safety as little news flows in or out of the country.

⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Bangladesh has now been cut off from the world for over six hours, with a nation-scale internet shutdown in effect amid student protests.

The disruption prevents families from contacting each other and stifles efforts to document human rights violations.

⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show #Bangladesh is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown; the new measure follows earlier efforts to throttle social media and restrict mobile data services, and comes amid reports of rising deaths at student protests 📉

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that restrictions on Meta platforms Facebook and WhatsApp continue in #Bangladesh for a second day with high impact to mobile networks, with further deaths reported as student protests continue and authorities shut down 'all educational institutions' 📵

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that social media platform Facebook has been restricted on multiple internet providers in #Bangladesh; the incident comes as police crack down on student protests over government-imposed quotas, with deaths and hundreds of injuries reported

⚠️ Confirmed: A significant decline in internet connectivity has been registered in parts of #Texas with high impact to Houston; the losses in service are attributed to power cuts and damaged infrastructure amid storm surges, flood and heavy rainfall 🔌📉 #TXwx

ℹ️ Note: Microsoft’s search engine Bing is currently experiencing international outages, particularly impacting CoPilot, ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #BingDown

⚠️ Confirmed: Internet access has been knocked out in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea, following reported Ukrainian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure 🔌📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show a major disruption to internet connectivity in and around West and Central #Africa; the incident affects networks supplying telecoms via subsea cables to multiple countries and operators 📉

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter remains restricted in #Pakistan despite brief moments of availability; any decision to restore access to the service, banned on 17 Feb amidst concerns over election fraud, will be deferred to an incoming government per local media reports 📉

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter has now been restricted in #Pakistan for three weeks; the popular microblogging platform has been largely unavailable since 17 February following a series of social media shutdowns targeting political opposition and an election day telecoms blackout

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter remains restricted in #Pakistan after a measure imposed on 17 February amid concerns over election fraud; meanwhile, a senator for the PPP socialist party has faced a backlash after petitioning to ban other social media platforms 📉

ℹ️ Confirmed: Metrics show that platforms including X/Twitter and Facebook became briefly accessible in #Russia while Telegram momentary became unavailable, in what is understood to be a brief configuration fault in Russia's national firewall on the 27th

⚠️ Update: Metrics show X/Twitter has now been restricted in #Pakistan for over 48 hours as concerns mount over election fraud; authorities have failed to provide a lawful basis for the measure, which violates the public's fundamental right to free expression at a critical moment

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter has now been restricted in #Pakistan for 24 hours, the latest and longest in a series of nation-scale internet censorship measures imposed by authorities as reports of election fraud emerge 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show a new national-scale disruption to X/Twitter in #Pakistan amid escalating unrest and protests over allegations of election fraud, following a high-level resignation and public admission of vote manipulation by a senior election official

⚠️ Update: Live metrics show #Pakistan's X/Twitter restriction is ongoing into a seventh day; with VPN services also widely restricted, users face increasing difficultly getting online amid heightened concerns over vote rigging after elections conducted under a telecoms shutdown

⚠️ Update: Metrics show X/Twitter has now been restricted in #Pakistan for over 120 hours, entering a sixth day of disruption as the nation joins a handful of countries that ban access to international social media platforms 📉

⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter remains largely restricted in #Pakistan past the four-day mark; imposed on Saturday as disclosures relating to election fraud circulated on the platform, the measure significantly hinders the exercise of democracy and media freedom 📉

⚠️ Update: Metrics indicate that X/Twitter remains restricted for many users in #Pakistan past the 72 hour mark, with access now intermittently restored on some providers; the incident is the longest of several internet censorship measures tracked through the election period