How do you force an entire country to go offline?
By some estimates, internet shutdowns have become more common in parts of Africa.
Just look at Ethiopia, where most of the Tigray region is still in the dark – or even Nigeria, where Twitter was suspended in early June.
But stopping people from going online, or from using social media, comes at a cost for governments – and that cost is both political and economic.
“It’s very difficult in the 21st century to pretend that you will go ‘business-as-usual’ when you don’t have the internet accessible,” says Julie Owono, executive director of campaigning group Internet Without Borders.
So, why do some governments keep doing it? And what can the tech giants do about this?
Source: BBC
