In addition to the ongoing shutdown of the Internet in Iran, IODA sees evidence of damage to critical Internet or power infrastructure through simultaneous drops in Routing Announcements across various networks.
For example, at ~6:00 PM local time today we see 5 networks show simultaneous drops.
People in #Iran continue to suffer from the effects of an internet shutdown. According to @ioda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, BGP is still active, a sign that some people with so called whitelisted SIM cards can still use the internet. This allows the mullah regime to continue sending X messages.
Freedom.gov in an earlier version: web.archive.org/web/20051130...
Internet connectivity down in Iran as airstrikes hit the country.
Traffic volume dropped at 07:06 UTC and then again at 11:47 UTC with minimal connectivity remaining.
The country had a partial restoration since Jan-27 following a complete shutdown in Jan-8.
Unfortunately, people in #Iran are familiar with internet shutdowns. In the current state of emergency, this is tragic because people can no longer obtain news or communicate with their loved ones.
The shutdown began at the same time as the air strikes at around 7 UTC, according to data from IODA.
Along with the air strikes on #Iran, the internet in the country is also severely restricted or completely inaccessible. This means that people in Iran have limited access to information about what is happening. Data is public from @ioda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Internet in Iran continues to be limited following a partial restoration.
Since Jan-27, we're seeing traffic volumes at 58% of what they were prior to the Jan-8 shutdown. During the day, traffic curves appear erratic, indicating disconnections.
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026
Iran's shutdown is now 15 days and counting. Small amounts of service have been restored in recent days.
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevoIution2026
State telecom TIC (A49666) re-established many of its lost connections with outside providers, such as GBI (AS200612) at 22:02 UTC on Jan-22.
Internet of Iran continues to experience temporary partial restorations of service before reverting back to a shutdown for everyone but a few privileged individuals.
#DigitalBlackoutlran #IranRevolution2026
Amazonโs Ring doorbell camera system won the โWorst in Showโ for privacy at #CES2026 for โdoubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,โ EFFโs Cindy Cohn told @apnews.com.
Sudden drop in IPv6 traffic to Iran at 11:49 UTC today (Jan-8) as the country's govt continues to selectively block internet access in an effort to staunch a growing protest movement. #IranProtests
Thrilled to share my latest article: "Keeping Syria connected during civil war."
A compelling, years-in-the-making story of "Mahmoud," a Syria Telecom network engineer who was on the front lines of the conflictโliterallyโto keep the country's internet running.
syriauntold.com/2025/12/27/k...
Kommentierte fรผr die Deutschlandfunk-Sender (nicht nur) die Debatte um #Klarnamenpflicht in Folge der Forderung von Andreas Voรkuhle.
www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-de...
This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity โ๏ธ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth โdid not complyโ with the Pentagonโs policies when he used a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes by U.S. forces in Yemen earlier this year, the departmentโs inspector general said in a report released on Thursday. Hereโs what else we learned from the report.
Hello World! DW is dedicating its first Bluesky post to this great topic, which is of course particularly close to my heart. A totally useful app in this day and age. Many thanks to everyone involved at DW, as well as to @vinifortuna.com and the Outline team. #InternetFreedom
DW Access App, a tool that circumvents censorship
Deutsche Welle is blocked in many countries. BigTech bans apps from their stores so that they can do business in autocracies.
DW is responding with โDW - Accessโ. It circumvents censorship, can be installed directly, and can be used during an internet shutdown. corporate.dw.com/en/dw-access...
Amazon has blamed today's massive outage on the "DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1."
@kentik.bsky.social observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted.
Since yesterday, the Taliban in Afghanistan have shut down the internet. Without the internet, many people are severely restricted in their daily lives. @ioda.live is a reliable source for tracking internet shutdowns. The measurement data is completely transparent and therefore quotable.
The shutdown is still ongoing!
Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local).
Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to โprevent immorality.โ This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.
What is the impact? ...from Putin's perspective. What comes next?
An illustration of the timeline of shutdowns during the uprising in Bangladesh in 2024.
โก๏ธ Today, we published a report documenting the shutdowns during the student uprising in #Bangladesh last year.
๐ ooni.org/post/2025-ba...
Together with Digitally Right, we compiled a comprehensive timeline of blocks, outages, and political events that happened in the 22 days of the uprising.
LEO satellite operator Starlink currently experiencing a total outage beginning at 19:13 UTC today. #Starlinkdown
No word yet on cause of the outage.
Satellite #Internet provider Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause.
x.com/Starlink/sta...
"Keine unabhรคngigen Medien mehr in Aserbaidschan?" Zu sehen ist der Aserbaidschanische Prรคsident Ilham Aliyev. Mit triumphierendem Blick lรคuft er รผber einen roten Teppich. Er trรคgt einen Anzug.
Aserbaidschan verschรคrft das Mediengesetz erneut: Auslรคndischen Redaktionen droht Schlieรung, Presseagenturen brauchen 20 lokale Abos โ in einem Land ohne unabhรคngige Medien. RSF fordert: Gesetz zurรผcknehmen, Journalist*innen freilassen!
#Pressefreiheit #Azerbaijan
