Bahrain's internet shutdown marks a 'new form of information control'

On July 23rd, people in the village of Duraz, Bahrain began having serious internet problems — mobile networks ground to a halt and landline connections were unusable. The outages continued for nearly three weeks, occurring from 7PM to 1AM every night, and they began just three days after residents took to the streets of Duraz in peaceful protest against the government. Bahrain's three telecoms offered no explanation for the localized blackout, saying only that they were working to fix it,