internetshutdown
By Hera Rizwan According to "Shrinking Democracy, Growing Violence," a report by the internet advocacy watchdog Access Now, India recorded 116 instances of internet shutdowns in 2023, representing 41% of the 283 cases worldwide. Consequently, India has led the world in internet shutdowns for the sixth consecutive year. Overall, the internet was snapped 283 times across 39 countries last year, an increase in 41 percent from 2022. Myanmar had the second highest number of shutdowns, with 37, although the report suggested that this figure is likely only a “fraction of what were likely hundreds.” F...
BOOM Live
By Donald Takhell DELHI, MANIPUR – Swami Laimayum, who was in Manipur when the internet was completely shut down in the aftermath of violence on May 3, 2023, was surprised to find that his sim card still has internet access. Laimayum had a Vodafone sim card which he has been using for almost a decade. There were words around that Vodafone sim had glitches and sometimes internet was accessible from these sim cards, albeit at low speeds. I was in Delhi at that time and Laimayum had video called me on WhatsApp. He said, “I'm the only one with internet, there is no use as my other friends in Manip...
BOOM Live
By Sana Fazili India logged at least 84 internet shutdowns in 2022, highest in the world, according to a report published on Tuesday by Access Now in coalition with KeepItOn. The report titled 'Weapons of Control, Shields of Impunity: Internet Shutdowns in 2022', noted that there has been a gradual uptick in the number of countries imposing internet gags from 2016 to 2022. For example, in 2016, 25 countries imposed internet gags. The following year, the number had come down to 19. Twenty-six countries imposed internet shutdowns in 2018, followed by 33 and 29 shutdowns in 2019 and 2020, respect...
BOOM Live
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら