India leads the world –  This tweet talks about reducing internet access for the 5th year in a row – India has been having internet blackouts which have been to the top for the world record of the highest amount of internet blackouts in 2022. The Authorities have shut down the internet in India 187 times which made India a top country to have internet shutdowns every year which of the 47 internet shutdowns by the Indian-administered Kashmir due to political instability and political violence. Kashmir has said that the tension was the rivalry between India and Pakistan which controls particularly the internet shutdowns on which the government has regularly imposed restrictions on communication on security grounds to measure the suppressed dissent. But a digital researcher named Srinivas Kodali says that the Indian government affords to block the Indian-administered Kashmir and internet shutdowns can be a form of “economics blockade” which means it can block exports of a country. Srinivas Kodali also states “We have heard so many stories about how shutting down the internet in Kashmir takes away people’s rights from taking part in any trade and commerce online”. Srinivas Kodali thinks that internet shutdowns are a form of censorship and it hurts people very badly that people are being silenced which affects them economically. I think that the Indian government wants to prevent free speeches from the people and doesn’t want to hear bad things about the Indian government from their own people. There have been many protests, spreading news and many people can get injured or killed if they said words that government doesn’t like to hear or to be spread out in the news and by internet shutdowns can cause people’s internet would be non-functional and can’t access to social media or other apps. I wonder if their internet has been slowing down due to many internet shutdowns? Does India have a backup plan if the internet doesn’t get a connection back at all? How long does the Internet reboot after each Internet shutdown? 

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Emmanuel Camarena