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Digital Rights News 18 June 2025 - 31 October 2025

Disney Yanks ESPN and ABC Off YouTube TV – Why It Happened and What’s Next

Disney Yanks ESPN and ABC Off YouTube TV – Why It Happened and What’s Next

Disney Channels Go Dark on YouTube TV: What Happened? After weeks of warnings, the YouTube TV–Disney carriage agreement expired at midnight ET on October 31, 2025 without a new deal. Within minutes, YouTube TV pulled all Disney-owned networks from its lineup awfulannouncing.com vulture.com. This blackout spans over 20 channels, including major broadcasters and cable staples: the local ABC stations, the entire ESPN family (ESPN, ESPN2, SEC Network, ACC Network, etc.), Disney Channel and Disney Junior, FX and FXX, National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild, Freeform, and more vulture.com vulture.com. In practical terms, if you tried to tune into SportsCenter on
31 October 2025
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Global Internet on Edge: Cable Cuts, Satellite Gambits & Digital Freedom Fights (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Global Internet on Edge: Cable Cuts, Satellite Gambits & Digital Freedom Fights (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Key Facts Undersea Cable Cuts Cripple Connectivity from Asia to the Middle East A sudden undersea cable crisis struck in early September, severing two key fiber-optic lines that carry internet traffic between continents. On Sept 7, network monitors at NetBlocks detected that the SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4) and IMEWE submarine cables were cut near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia reuters.com. The impact was felt across multiple countries: India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others all experienced drastically slowed internet speeds or partial outages as data traffic was forced onto alternate paths reuters.com reuters.com. Connectivity in parts of East Africa was also reportedly affected, given
11 September 2025
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Global Internet Access Turmoil: Outages, Crackdowns & New Lifelines (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Global Internet Access Turmoil: Outages, Crackdowns & New Lifelines (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Major Outages and Internet Shutdowns Widespread outages disrupted internet access across multiple regions in recent days. In the United States, a major Verizon network failure on August 30 underscored the fragility of even advanced telecom systems ts2.tech. Starting around midday on the 30th, Verizon wireless customers from California to New York suddenly found their phones showing “SOS only” – meaning no cellular service except emergency calls ts2.tech. By mid-afternoon outage reports spiked above 23,000 as users complained of being unable to make calls or use mobile data ts2.tech. Verizon acknowledged a software issue in its 4G/5G core network and scrambled
5 September 2025
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Internet Kill Switch: Recurring Blackouts in Syria, Iraq, Algeria – And Who’s Next?

Internet Kill Switch: Recurring Blackouts in Syria, Iraq, Algeria – And Who’s Next?

Syria has conducted annual nationwide internet shutdowns on high school exam days since 2016, with 2020–2025 patterns showing daily outages of roughly 3.5 to 5.5 hours during exam periods. Syria’s shutdowns use an asymmetric model that allows outbound traffic but blocks inbound responses, making the internet effectively unusable. In Syria, the 2023 exam season produced at least 11 nationwide outages, each about 4 hours long (06:00–10:00), spanning May–June for the first round and late June–July for the second. Iraq began regular exam-related shutdowns in 2023, imposing near-daily four-hour nationwide outages (04:00–08:00) during exams, with a total of 42 outages in
18 June 2025
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