danyork, 1 year ago

🚨INTERNET SHUTDOWNS (cont'd)🚨

MAURITANIA turned off mobile Internet because of large-scale protests after the death of a young boy in police custody - https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns/mauritania-blocks-mobile-internet-during-protests

SENEGAL blocked instant messaging and social networks after protests spread across the nation after a leading opposition candidate was sentenced to jail - https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns/senegal-blocks-social-media-and-instant-messaging-amidst-protests

#InternetAccess #KeepItOn #Mauritania #Mauritanie #Senegal

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danyork, 1 year ago

🚨INTERNET SHUTDOWNS (cont'd)🚨

And this is on top of the #Guinea government recently blocking some services because of protests... and #Pakistan before that!

We track all these #InternetShutdowns at:

https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns

We believe that shutdowns harm people, societies, economies, and the Internet's infrastructure:

https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdown-statement

We and our partners and allies want governments to #KeepItOn !

#InternetAccess

Sadly, I think I'll be writing these pages for a while.. 🙁

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danyork, 1 year ago

P.S. And even though the #Iraq Ministry of Communications made positive comments about keeping the #Internet on during student exams, the Ministry of Education seems to have overruled that. Current information is that they will be shutting off the Internet for four-hour blocks for maybe 10 or more days over the next few weeks!

More from a colleague of mine:

https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/iraq-ministry-of-communication-takes-positive-action-against-shutdowns