Image by james.gordon6108 via FlickrIt was officially declared on Saturday, by the officials of the United States government, that it is highly concerned and keeping a sharp eye on the Internet shutdown activates in Syria. The secretary of State, Hillary Clinton passed a threatening statement against the government trying to hush the protesters; she stated that the government "cannot prevent the transition currently taking place." She declared that "we are deeply concerned by reports that Internet service has been shut down across much of Syria, as have some mobile communication networks." The U.S. has been always debating for freedom of speech, hence indirectly supporting all the deadly anti-government protests rage across the Middle Eastern nations, Hillary added that "we condemn any effort to suppress the Syrian people's exercise of their rights to free expression, assembly, and association."
According to the collected information from local sources, the Internet lines were non-functional in Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia on Friday. Whereas it was estimated by a US-based Internet monitoring firm that almost around two-third of the whole country did not had access to internet due to the outage of network. Clinton pointed out that the government of Syria, under the command of President Bashar al-Assad, "has a history of restricting the Internet in an attempt to prevent the Syrian people from accessing and sharing information.” One of the elite U.S. diplomat claimed that “The Syrian government must understand that attempting to silence its population cannot prevent the transition currently taking place. We believe that even in the face of significant obstacles, the Syrian people will, and should, find a way to make their voices heard.”
Just two weeks ago back White House released its International Strategy for Cyberspace, where it stated that no state should be illogically be kept deprived or disrupt from the access to the Internet, whether be on individual scale or public. Clinton added that "we condemn such shutdowns in the strongest terms." Syria is entangled with these aggressive disturbances since almost mid-March, when a large demonstration was conducted against the rule of Assad. Even more than 100,000 protestors gathered one day, for the funeral ceremony of the protesters who lost their lives by the hands of Syrian security forces in Hama, at the time of protest. There were around 53 victims who lost their lives during this massive anti-government protest across Syria on Friday.
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