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Was the July 19 2012 outage due to censorship?

At 13:48 on 20 July 2012‎ User:The Anome added the following text to the end of the history section of the article:

On July 19 2012, Internet access from Syria traveling via the state carrier Syrian Telecommunications Establishment was cut off for a period of 40 minutes.^[1]

^ Doug Madory (2012-07-19). "Syria Briefly Disconnects". Renesys. Retrieved 2012-07-20.

My question is, do we know what the cause of this outage was? Was it related to censorship or was there some other reason such as equipment failure or software configuration error? 40 minutes seems very short for censorship. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 20:42, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I heard it was a tactical move. FSA/Al Qaeda were using social media for planning terrorist attacks and strikes. The government figured out about a battle that was about to start so they cut the internet, thus blinding the terrorists. During the internet-blackout, the Syrian army devastated the opposition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.121.145 (talk) 08:37, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You heard it was a tactical move. From whom did you hear it? Is it a reputable sourse? Impartial? Believable? Even existent? Because it is completely unconvincing. Why this only happened once or twice in two years or conflict? Terror attacks and rebel offensives are a constant, why was this one any different? Are you sure bombings are coordinated via the Internet? Why not shut down mobile phones too? (which they weren't) Why restore the internet inmediately? Can you answer any of this questions, or you simply don't know? Then, unless there's hard proof that the Internet cut-off was an act of censorship it shouldn't be here, or at least the wording should be extremely skeptical and cautious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.49.179.60 (talk) 12:21, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the activities of the Syrian Electronic Army might fall under the heading of censorship, but much of it doesn't. I'd be interested to start a proper article about the SEA, but wanted to check if something had been tried before or there's a history here I'm not aware of.TheBlueCanoe 02:49, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I cant understand why the SEA dont have an article yet. Well I understand why, for political reasons, but that is not acceptable. For example, "Syrian Free Press", wich it very, very less known has an article yet. Is CENSORSHIP part of Wikipedia?!? It seems so...--HCPUNXKID (talk) 17:23, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hacking NPR?

If @Official_SEA is truly affiliated with the Syrian Electronic Army, they're claiming responsibility for a brief hack of NPR this evening. Not sure if it has anything to do with the Boston bombings or what and there's very little information about it out there, but people might start coming and editing this page, so I figured I'd explain in advance. If more clear information comes out, perhaps it should be added, anyway? 68.188.224.42 (talk) 04:12, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also Associated Press more recently, although investigation is still ongoing. FallingGravity (talk) 07:42, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Doug Madory (2012-07-19). "Syria Briefly Disconnects". Renesys. Retrieved 2012-07-20.

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