Internet shutdowns: How they happen and mitigation measures

State agencies can slow down the internet, either on an entire network or to a specific website or platform, a concept known as network throttling that aims at making the connection extremely slow that it becomes unusable.

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In today’s digital age, internet connectivity disruptions of whatever nature could prove costly to individuals and businesses.

Often, such disruptions are orchestrated by authorities as a means to suppress dissent and control the spread of politically ‘incorrect’ opinion among the masses.

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