Will social media be blocked in Pakistan on May 23rd?
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Netblocks reported that social media blockage of Twitter and Facebook began on May 9th, coninciding with protests over the arrest of former PM Imran Khan. Will resolve according to May 23rd Netblocks data.

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Youtube traffic to Pakistan seems returned to normal.

Meanwhile the mobile internet shutdown is definitely over based on cloudflare data. The CloudFlare Pakistan page for the last week also shows Google, Youtube, and Facebook as top visited sites.

Reporting is surprisingly sparse but external indicators seem to strongly point to no blocks.

predictedYES

@DanMan314 Very weird. Where did you get this data?

predictedNO

@ShadowyZephyr Mostly google? I knew Cloudflare had published an article with some links to realtime dashboards, also looked up Youtube and Facebook's traffic by country but only Youtube had it.

Ez W pakistan coming through for me
https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-khan-internet-blocked/32410156.html

Not sure about the dates though. I think the last article got their source on May 12, because newer articles say social media is still down.

Pressure is rising internationally and the bans effectiveness is declining, as more and more people are using VPNs to circumvent the bans.

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