tfowinder@lemmy.ml
on 27 Sep 2024 11:27
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The situation can escalate quickly and there could be a lot of violent riots, given the history.
I personally think these things are justified if you really know the on ground situation.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
on 27 Sep 2024 11:42
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The shutdowns are mostly in Jammu/Kashmir
The majority of shutdowns in India have historically occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, a region at the center of a decades-long dispute between India, Pakistan, and China. In August 2019, it experienced 552 consecutive days of internet blackout, the world’s longest shutdown in history.
tfowinder@lemmy.ml
on 27 Sep 2024 11:48
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As expected.
The situation has really improved since last 2 years. Hopefully peace will come back to the valley.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
on 27 Sep 2024 14:22
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My very first thought was they would lose so much business if they did that but yeah regionally I can see them getting away with.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
on 27 Sep 2024 14:34
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An insurgency, riots, or general strike impact business as well.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
on 27 Sep 2024 12:06
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I don’t understand how they can keep it blocked for so long. After 3 days, I’d have a Pringles can my roof aimed at a friend/relative who wasn’t blocked…
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 27 Sep 2024 12:23
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I was curious about their methodology for counting “internet shutdowns”.
I live in Ukraine and I have not experienced government run internet shutdowns since the full scale russian invasion. We do block russian resources (pretty easy to overcome via VPN), but that’s understandable as they spread genocidal propaganda.
The internet does go down for some providers when there are longer brownouts, but that’s related to the russians targeting the energy infrastructure. To my knowledge even frontline towns (i.e. 10km to the front) still have internet if there is capability to provide it. I believe towns ~20 km from the frontline are actually exempt from planned power shutdowns when there is too much load on the system (due to russians destroying ~60% of our electricity production capacity).
So I looked into their dataset (direct google sheets link).
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The situation can escalate quickly and there could be a lot of violent riots, given the history.
I personally think these things are justified if you really know the on ground situation.
The shutdowns are mostly in Jammu/Kashmir
As expected.
The situation has really improved since last 2 years. Hopefully peace will come back to the valley.
My very first thought was they would lose so much business if they did that but yeah regionally I can see them getting away with.
An insurgency, riots, or general strike impact business as well.
I don’t understand how they can keep it blocked for so long. After 3 days, I’d have a Pringles can my roof aimed at a friend/relative who wasn’t blocked…
I was curious about their methodology for counting “internet shutdowns”.
I live in Ukraine and I have not experienced government run internet shutdowns since the full scale russian invasion. We do block russian resources (pretty easy to overcome via VPN), but that’s understandable as they spread genocidal propaganda.
The internet does go down for some providers when there are longer brownouts, but that’s related to the russians targeting the energy infrastructure. To my knowledge even frontline towns (i.e. 10km to the front) still have internet if there is capability to provide it. I believe towns ~20 km from the frontline are actually exempt from planned power shutdowns when there is too much load on the system (due to russians destroying ~60% of our electricity production capacity).
So I looked into their dataset (direct google sheets link).
And low and behold, this is what I found:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/faf77f93-5f66-413c-8f24-3cce738e5245.jpeg">
They do explicitly state that “Shutdowns were imposed by external parties in Palestine and Ukraine”, but it seems strange to include such cases considering this is different from the approach used in India.
Gotta maximize those scam centers uptime!
John from Microsoft Windows works there though!