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Shutting down the internet doesn’t work – but governments keep doing it

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The justifications for such shutdowns are usually relatively predictable. Governments often claim that internet access is blocked in the interest of public security and order. The irony, however, is that shutdowns actually deepen dissent.

A strip of closed offices and empty sidewalk with a single woman waiting for offices to open.

Zimbabwe’s internet crackdown shows the ‘economic sabotage’ of shutdowns