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How Governments Turn the Internet Into a Weapon

  • Bruce Schneier and Zach Rosson--Gizmodo.com
  • published date: 2025-12-13 12:00:17 UTC

From protests to elections, governments are increasingly pulling the internet plug on entire populations. Connectivity is slowly becoming a tool of control, not a guarantee.

For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown … [+7581 chars]