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Governments Increasingly Use Internet Blackouts as a Tool of Political Control
Originally published by The Guardian on 2022-08-29.
‘There’s no freedom’
In Ukraine, that cloak of darkness fell one hour before Russia’s invasion in February, when a massive state-sponsored cyber-attack on a key satellite internet network knocked tens of thousands of Ukrainian modems offline, while Sudan severed the internet after its military…
Internet ShutdownsGovernment ControlPress Freedom
Added to digest: 8 April 2026