Taking to its Google Plus social network, Google on Thursday pointed Web users to its Transparency Report website, which detected a sharp-drop off in traffic to Google sites from Syria, following what appears to be a countrywide outage in the country that began early Thursday morning. Google used the incident to promote its new “#FreeandOpen” campaign against proposed new U.N. Internet regulations. As Google’s post reads:
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