India Lost $2.8 Billion Owing to Internet Shutdowns in 2020: Report
India Lost $2.8 Billion Owing to Internet Shutdowns in 2020: Report India restricted internet use more than any other nation, with 8,927 hours of blacked out or curbed bandwidth access during the year, a report by a UK-based research group showed. Kashmiri journalists protest against the internet shutdown in Srinagar in November. Photo: PTI/S. Irfan Tech06/Jan/2021 New Delhi: In 2016, the United Nations condemned internet access disruption as a human rights violation. Despite this, governments across the world have been shutting down citizens’ access to the web with impunity. The upshot is ...