Prevent access to networks is a technique increasingly used to facilitate a coup, curb a popular movement, affect the results of elections …
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In Africa, where the majority of the population has no broadband connection yet, authoritarian governments restrict access to networks to control information in times of crisis. About one in six internet cuts around the world is the fact of an African state, a practice mainly used during coups, elections, community violence or protest movements.
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