Spain: https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/18/in-spain-football-matches-knock-thousands-of-websites-and-services-offline
France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France
: https://codekhabar.com/post/france-orders-isps-to-ready-dns-blocks-for-major-social-platforms-on-oct-24
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replyI know the difference between blocking individual sites and every site hosted at Vercel or behind Cloudflare
replythe point is that people can still use the internet. u dont need cloudflare to use the internet they can be down forever and people will still have internet. they shut down access to services _on_ the internet.
replyit might feel like the internet is off depending on which services, but you can still find eachother and use internet if these services are down aslong as ISP networks and core routes/switches still work. if you have an IP,.and your friend has an IP and the network in between routes those,.that is the internet. If you host a website on that IP, that is a service _on_ the internet..
its distinct and an important distinction.
Every time there’s a football game? At least that I’m hearing in the case of Spain. No, they don’t throw a switch, but they turn off enough CDNs to effectively turn off the internet.
replyAgain, no personal experience, but have heard enough from folks here to believe it.
Some folks on internet are not representative of a nationwide issue...
replyThey cut the whole country's internet when people are playing football, to make sure nobody is live pirating the football
replyThis is your country. This is your country on intellectual property rights.