One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and govern ment crackdowns in which thousands have been killed, something strange happened on Syria's Internet. As users aimed their Web browsers at Google and Facebook, they instead saw a page of white Arabic script scrawled across a black background. "This is a deliberate, temporary Internet breakdown. Please read carefully and spread the following message," it read. "Your Internet activity is monitored."
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