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    This Is How The Lebanese Are Reacting To The Internet & Data Outage In Lebanon

    By Kassem ChoukiniSeptember 3, 2022
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    For a good week or so, Internet and Cellular Data have been going out and cutting off in several cities in Lebanon as a consequence of the strike of the employees of the telecom sector.

    Some are experiencing a timed cutoff and others are facing a complete outage. With everything else falling apart, the Lebanese have to also face this challenging situation.

    In an era that practically runs on telecom and internet connections in many aspects, people wonder in frustration and anger how deeper the state can continue digging the hole of its collapse.

    Many took to Twitter in between the internet cutoffs to express their opinions, mostly addressing Ogero. Here are the most relevant tweets:

    المطالبة بأبسط الحقوق حق و واجب.
    أما توقيف خدمات الإنترنت والخطوط الأرضية للمطالبة بحقوقك أصبح جرم.
    كفى تلاعب في أرزاق الناس!#أوجيرو #لبنان

    — Marcellin El Khoury (@marcellin_kh) September 2, 2022

    Translates to: “Demanding the most basic rights is a right and a duty.
    As for stopping internet services and landlines to demand your rights, this is a pure crime.
    Enough manipulation of people’s livelihood!”

    إنك تأضرب حتى توصل لمطلبك
    هيدا حقك
    أما إنك من ضمن إضرابك توقّف الرقم الساخن تبع الصليب الاحمر .. هيدي جريمة مش حقك أبداً #اوجيرو

    — nabil hamdan نبيل حمدان (@nabilhamdan17) August 31, 2022

    Translation:
    “To go on a strike until you reach your demand,
    this is your right.
    However, to stop the hotline of the Red Cross as part of your strike is a crime that is not your right at all.”

    رفع التعرفة وردائة بالخدمة #الاتصالات #اوجيرو

    — Maryse Chemaly (@MaryseCHEMALY) September 2, 2022

    Translation: “Raising the tariff and poor service.”

    مزروبين بالبيت #البنزين غالي
    ميتين من الشوب وما في #كهربا
    مش قادرين نشتغل ما في #انترنت
    اتصالات مع الخارج مقطوعة ولك اذا متنا ما منقدر نتصل ب #الصليب_الأحمر
    مزروبين بالبلد أصلاً لأن ما في #جوازات_سفر
    شو الحلّ؟ خلص قتلونا وريحونا! #أوجيرو #لبنان_الحلو

    — Adelle Kerbaj (@AdelleKerbej) September 2, 2022

    Translation:
    “Stuck at home, gasoline is expensive.
    We’re dying from the heat and there is no electricity.
    We can’t work, there is no internet.
    Communications with the outside world are cut off, and if we die, we can’t even call the Red Cross.
    We are already stuck in the country as there are no passports available
    .
    What’s the solution? Just finish us already!”

    أيها الناس في مشارق الأرض ومغاربها قد نغيب عنكم بسبب توقف #النت والهاتف تدريجيا في المناطق اللبنانية تباعا وها نحن ننتظر دورنا فإن اختفينا فجأة لا تعدوا ذلك موقفا بل لأننا نعود تدريجيا إلى #العصر_الحجري
    ألقاكم على خير في حال لم تحدث كارثة أخرى#البؤس_اللبناني #أوجيرو #كامل_صالح pic.twitter.com/v0YkznY7tQ

    — kamel farhan saleh (@kamelfsaleh) September 2, 2022

    Translation:
    “People in the east and west of the earth, we might disappear from you because of the gradual interruption of the internet and the phone in the Lebanese regions, and here we are waiting for our turn.
    If we suddenly disappear from you, don’t consider it a stance [against you], but that’s because we are gradually going back to the stone age.
    We’ll meet you back again if there is no other disaster.”

    من اعطى موظفي #اوجيرو الحق بعزل #لبنان عن العالم واذلال شعب ياكمله
    انتو بشو احسن من العسكري، او الشرطي او الاستاذ او باقي موظفي القطاع العام، حتى تطالبو تقيضوا بالدولار الفريش، والمسخرة انو
    قطاع الاتصالات سبب اساسي من يلي وصلناله نتيجة الهدر والفساد،
    شو هل مسخرة @JohnnyCorm

    — Omar (@colonelwazwaz) September 2, 2022

    Translation:
    “Who gave the employees of Ogero the right to isolate Lebanon from the world and humiliate an entire population?
    How are you better than the military, the policeman, the professor, or the rest of the public sector employees for you to ask to be paid in fresh dollars? And the irony is that
    the telecom sector is a major cause of what we have reached as a result of waste and corruption.
    What a masquerade…”

    The expats had also their word to say. Here’s one of them:

    Comment
    byu/Obvious-Judgment9909 from discussion
    inlebanon

    Related: Ogero Employees Strike Threatens Internet Cut Off In Several Regions In Lebanon.

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