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Why is this news? Iraq does this, Jordan does this, it's common throughout the region to block internet. It's not effective, and usually there are carveouts (office internet still works, usually it's only cellular and public internet, etc). When I was living in Iraq this was just something you dealt with, like a rolling blackout once a while.

Lots of bad things commonly happen and yet are news, since someone might be learning them for the first time.

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