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An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services. It can occur due to censorship , cyberattacks , disasters, [ 1 ] police or security services actions [ 2 ] or errors.
The blackout occurred minutes after Beyoncé’s dazzling 13-minute set, which featured a surprise reunion with Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams for renditions of ...
The blackout followed reports of blocked access to social media platforms like Twitter. [8] This was an attempt to control the flow of information and suppress coordination among protestors. Despite these efforts, the protests intensified, ultimately leading to Mubarak’s resignation on February 11, 2011.
A blackout is the total loss of power to a wider area and of long duration. [1] It is the most severe form of power outage that can occur. Blackouts which result from or result in power stations tripping are particularly difficult to recover from quickly.
Ecuador gets about 77% of its electricity from hydroelectric generation, according to local news outlets.. The presidency said the overnight blackout time window was chosen to reduce the impact on ...
Blackout or lost time, a common symptom of psychogenic amnesia and dissociative identity disorder Syncope (medicine) , a loss of consciousness, also known as fainting Freediving blackout , a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive
The Canadian Football League's constitution does provide the option for teams to black out games in their home markets in order to encourage attendance; at one point, the CFL required games to be blacked out within a radius of 120 kilometres (75 miles) around the closest over-the-air signal carrying the game, or 56 kilometres (35 miles) of the stadium for cable broadcasts (and, for the ...
The English-language Wikipedia page on January 18, 2012, illustrating its international blackout in opposition to SOPA. On January 18, 2012, by consensus of editors, the English Wikipedia was blacked out for one day to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill in the United States House of Representatives. The process for deciding ...