Re:Uganda's internet Shutdown
by freeone3000 on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:02PM
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Or you simply value control over money. The economy is not the primary goal of everyone, not even all governments.
Re:Uganda's internet Shutdown
by read_if_gay_ on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:03PM
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You need some degree of economy to have control though.
But evidence shows countries turning the internet off all the time, let alone specific filtering, and their economies haven't collapsed. India does it dozens of times a year.
In most cases you don't need to completely turn everything off, just shut down the mobile networks, and maybe the big domestic broadband networks, and that's good enough.
Turn off internet or block social networks?
Re:Uganda's internet Shutdown
by imtringued on Saturday January 16, 2021 @12:46PM
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If your country has natural resources it is very easy to heavily control that part of the economy and suppress the less controllable parts of the economy (by shutting the internet down for example).
Of course, if you don't have a significant economy to begin with or something else has already disrupted it (riots, uprising, etc - which could also be what prompts you to shut down the internet) then it's not a problem.