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Internet shutdowns by governments have 'proliferated at a truly alarming pace':
The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens' access to the web.
Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now's Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is "patchy," some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years. There were 213 shutdowns in 2019 alone, with this figure ticking down to 155 in 2020 as the world adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic (which delayed elections and led to lockdowns that kept populations at home more often). And already in the first five months of 2021 there have been 50 shutdowns across 21 countries.
"Since we began tracking government-initiated internet shutdowns, their use has proliferated at a truly alarming pace," Access Now's Felicia Anthonio, campaigner and #KeepItOn lead, said in a new report on the issue in The Current, a publication of Google's internet thinktank Jigsaw. "As governments across the globe learn this authoritarian tactic from each other, it has moved from the fringes to become a common method many authorities use to stifle opposition, quash free speech and muzzle expression."
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 05 2021, @09:50PM (15 children)
You're half right, anyway. Without the internet, we wouldn't have seen the Summer of Love 2020, sponsored by BLM and Antifa.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Sunday September 05 2021, @10:23PM (13 children)
Without murder of American Citizens at the hands of Law Enforcement we wouldn't have had BLM protests.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 05 2021, @10:59PM (11 children)
Unlikely. BLM protests justified killings when they run out of murders, and they get their mojo on a 4 year cycle.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Sunday September 05 2021, @11:10PM (8 children)
... Uh huh. On this particular world there has NOT been a state of 'out of murders'. When you guys should be talking about how LE treats American Citizens instead you guys talk about how it's the victims' fault. Oh and there's less tolerance for that now since the about-face for of one of the Capitol Rioters recently.
You've got a path that's both easier and less attractive to opportunistic looters.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @06:36PM (7 children)
Fuck you, ignorant, brainwashed race traitor. Blacks don't belong in any white country and should be shipped home/expelled. Peacefully if possible in the US as it's not completely their fault the Jews brought them here as property (primarily for other Jews and 1-2% of whites). Blacks in SA and other white nations they invaded voluntarily should be told to leave and other white nations should send in the military to run them out if they don't leave (which we know they won't becasuse they are dependents of the worst kind; ungrateful and violent). First we would have to get control of our intelligence agencies and military from the International Jews and their lapdog Shabbos Goy. Won't happen until dumb whites like you wake up out of their dream world created by Jew school books, agents(teachers) and media.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @06:54PM
Get a life troll, humanity doesn't want you racist idiots.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 06 2021, @07:19PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 06 2021, @08:37PM (3 children)
as it's not completely their fault the Jews brought them here as property
I wondered how you would weasel out of the fact that most blacks in the US are descended from slaves that were brought here involuntarily and have since interbred with everyone else here (something like a third of them are white even!). Of course, it's the Jews. The problem with that fairy tale is that a lot of non-Jewish whites made that happen and profited handsomely from it.
My take is that it's time you came up with something better and grownup to worry about. We're not about to create a "white country" just because there are Jews somewhere in the world. But if such a thing were to happen, you can bet good money that your elites in that country, whether Jewish or not, would immediately figure out how to import non-whites just for the cheap labor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 08 2021, @07:46AM (2 children)
khallow, psst! You're out of your league again! Did you not notice that the racist scumbag was talking about white countries that blacks voluntarily migrated to? Like, SA? We are dealing with a Rabid Afrikaaner here, those Dutch that god has forsaken. Best to just ignore them, unless they try to shoot their wives and children, or build rockets in Texas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 08 2021, @03:43PM
Khallow's actually making good points, including about the pragmatic attitude of elites.
As for your racist attitude to south africans, I think that puts you more in company with the original racist ranter. (Not that the assessment is one that makes sense anyway, historically. The incursion of white colonists coincided, roughly, with the incursion of Bantu tribes and both were pretty destructive to local groups.)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 11 2021, @02:10AM
"as it's not completely their fault the Jews brought them here as property"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 06 2021, @11:02PM
I wondered how you would weasel out of the fact that most blacks in the US are descended from slaves that were brought here involuntarily and have since interbred with everyone else here (something like a third of them are white even!). Of course, it's the Jews. The problem with that fairy tale is that a lot of non-Jewish people (white, black, and others) made that happen and profited handsomely from it.
My take is that it's time you came up with something better and grownup to worry about. We're not about to create a "white country" just because there are Jews somewhere in the world. But if such a thing were to happen, you can bet good money that your elites in that country, whether Jewish or not, would immediately figure out how to import non-whites just for the cheap labor.
[added:] In hindsight, you're probably just trolling for a reaction. Congrats, if true. But if this is really something you believe, you're failing hard. Jews, blacks, whatever won't patch up your life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @05:58AM (1 child)
Jesus Christ you fuckers are just absolute evil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @03:49PM
You're evil but you don't know it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @12:21AM
Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of rampant American racism, Hmmm?
(Score: 2) by helel on Monday September 06 2021, @12:52PM
The AC I responded to specified minority groups. 60% of Americans think the police should be held to a higher standard [washingtonpost.com], making the protesters against police violence the majority.