Sentence examples for internet shutting down from inspiring English sources

The government also crippled the opposition's communications, blocking Gmail, slowing the Internet, shutting down text messaging services and jamming satellite television channels.

The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it had taken itself off the Internet, shutting down public access to its databases on environmental hazards and cutting itself off from e-mail, after a lawmaker complained on his own Web site that the agency's computers were sitting ducks for hackers.

Many online file-sharing services had closed shortly after Napster, which popularized file sharing over the Internet, shut down in 2001 after a music industry lawsuit.

Where I come from, people battle for the right to criticise politicians and speak out against the government without having their posts deleted, their Internet shut down, or being put under house arrest.

A virus born in the depth of the Internet shut down Google Street View and kicked millions of users out of their routine lives.

Since 2011, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Syria witnessed Internet shut downs.

Invariably, when a card is processed, the phone line clogs, the modem freezes, the Internet shuts down and laptops are temporarily left in a lurch.

RapidShare, one of the first file hosting services on the Internet, is shutting down next month.

In Venezuela last week President Nicolas Maduro took another step towards controlling all access to the internet, by shutting down access to the Tor network.

A government might significantly impair Internet connectivity by shutting down large providers, but there would still be a deep pool of persistent paths to the global Internet.

Smaller Internet companies are shutting down in droves.