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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: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 05 2021, @11:36PM (4 children)
You must be a neo-Nazi or something. https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/news/g4782/prince-harry-cringe-worthy-moments/ [marieclaire.com]
1. Dressed as a Nazi
2. Calls his Asian friends by names such as "Paki" and "raghead".
3. Drug rehab
4. Got nekkid in public in Las Vegas
5. Bashes in the faces of news photographers he doesn't like.
6. Falls into swimming pools - drunk.
7. Spurs his horse to death
8. Snorts vodka
But, hey, if you say he's cool, he's cool! I'm not even a Brit, what do I care?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @12:42AM
Prince Harry's out of the running anyway, and a good thing too. (By the way, he didn't spur it to death - it just bled. Still not good, but not what you're saying.)
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday September 06 2021, @09:19AM (2 children)
American here, the Nazi shits fucked up (don't know the context). Maybe it's all the punk music I've listened to, but the rest seems pretty cool to me.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @10:05AM
He wouldn't do those things (I take'm at face value for the moment, only heard of the Nazi stuff) if he wouldn't believe that somebody would consider them cool, would he? Seems like he has found an audience.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 06 2021, @06:25PM
You're an ignorant dumb ass. The so called "Nazis" were the good guys. Fuck the Jews (Holocaust is Jew lies) and the allied race traitors