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Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City

posted by on Tuesday July 21 2015, @04:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the someone-stomp-these-guys-already dept.

"exec" writes:

From this article on vice.com:

The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) has severely restricted use of the internet in its de-facto capital of Raqqa, requiring that all residents — including those in the militant group's ranks — access the web from observed internet cafes, according to international monitoring organizations.

An IS leaflet photographed and circulated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), advises that "all owners of shops with satellite internet must comply with the following: Removing Wi-Fi boosters in internet cafés as well as private wireless adaptors, even for soldiers of the Islamic State."

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Activists worry that internet restriction is intended to clamp down on citizen journalists, human rights workers, and potential IS defectors.

Even under IS rule, activists have managed to sneak out videos, images, and accounts of daily life. In September, a woman with a camera hidden in her niqab walked through the city narrating her experience. The smuggled footage was aired on French TV.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:16PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:16PM (#212124) Journal

    Coming back around to topic, that does make me wonder about ISIS. Are there similarities? Are they being funded by big money?

    Petroleum non olet (oil doesn't smell). Actually it does, so strong that any ISIS specific aroma is drowned [nytimes.com].

    The group takes in tens of millions of dollars each month, including about $1 million a day through black-market sales of oil extracted from territory it controls, allowing it to amass wealth at an “unprecedented pace,” Mr. Cohen said.

    Describing an elaborate smuggling operation that uses well-worn routes and old local networks, Mr. Cohen said the Islamic State sold oil to a wide array of buyers, including Iraqi Kurds who resell it in Turkey, and the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

    Now, $1mil/day is big for a terrorist organisation, but not nearly enough to run a "state". So they seems to have other means [brookings.edu] as well.

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