Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics

Expand With communications shut down, journalists work inside a media center in Srinagar set up by Jammu and Kashmir authorities, August 18, 2019.  © 2019 AP Photo/ Dar Yasin In 2020 you should be watching for who’s trying to shut down the Internet. From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar, and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or some parts of their countries – perhaps…

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