2018
- Brazilian “Rights in Network Coalition” issued a statement on the risk of internet shutdowns during this year’s national election (05/18/2018, Coalizão Direitos na Rede)
- Russia to block Telegram app over encryption (04/13/2018, BBC)
- Internet Shutdowns cannot be a solution to political challenges in Chad (04/10/2018, Internet Society)
- India’s Internet shutdown: Most states block services without following Centre’s new rules (04/07/2018, Scroll.in)
- Reconnecting the internet is the first litmus test Ethiopia’s new prime minister has to pass (04/06/2018, Quartz Africa)
- Chad is blocking social media and messaging apps… again (04/05/2018, Internet Sans Frontières)
- Indonesia threatens to shut down Facebook (04/03/2018, Sydney Morning Herald)
- Iran to block Telegram messaging app: reports (04/01/2018, Al Jazeera)
- Kashmir, India: Mobile Internet suspended in Rajouri on third straight day (03/26/2018, Greater Kashmir)
- Sri Lankan shutdown of web-based services creates huge social costs (03/26/2018, Internet Society)
- Unexplained internet blackout in Ethiopia’s Oromia region (03/21/2018, Africa News)
- Message from Afrin: We wan’t wait for a shutdown to condemn network disruptions in times of war (03/15/2018, SMEX)
- Banning social media won’t stop hate speech (03/15/2018, The New York Times)
- Short-term Internet Shutdown in Bali Tied to Holiday (03/16/2018, Internet Society)
- Sri Lanka shut down Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram during anti-Muslim violence (03/07/2018, Quartz)
- The shutdown has ended, but Cameroonians are still feeling the impact (03/01/2018, Access Now)
- Pakistanis have long suffered from internet shutdowns. At last, their voices are being heard (02/27/2018, Access Now)
- Verdict: Islamabad High Court declares network disconnections as illegal (02/26/2018, Bytes for All Pakistan)
- Laughing in the face of an internet shutdown in Bangladesh (02/23/2018, Global Voices Advox)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo activists take on Vodacom & others over internet shutdowns (02/15/2018, Right 2 Know)
- India: Throttling of high speed internet leaves subscribers fuming (02/14/2018, Greater Kashmir)
- Bangladesh: Government backtracks on decision to shut down internet (02/13/2018, The Daily Star)
- South Korea: Cyberattack caused Olympic opening ceremony internet disruption (02/12/2018, The New York Times)
- “Out of Coverage Area:” Sinai Peninsula Residents Unreachable (02/10/2018, SMEX)
- Netizen Report: The Rising Cost of Cameroon’s Internet Shutdowns (02/02/2018, Global Voices Advox)
- Frequent internet shutdown angers south Kashmir inhabitants (02/01/2018, The Kashmir Monitor)
- Cameroun : une plainte déposée contre l’État pour dénoncer les coupures Internet en zone anglophone (01/31/2018, Jeune Afrique)
- Chad restores internet access after shutdown (01/30/2018, ITWeb Africa)
- Cameroon is being sued for blocking the internet in its Anglophone regions (01/30/2018, Quartz Africa)
- Rising internet shutdowns aimed at ‘silencing dissent’ (01/29/2018, Al Jazeera)
- Internet shutdowns: a myth of security and public safety (01/25/2018, Foundation for Media Alternatives of the Philippines)
- Cameroon internet shutdowns cost Anglophones millions (01/26/2018, Al Jazeera)
- There’s a decades-old law threatening digital freedom in DR Congo (01/24/2018, Quartz Africa)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Authorities block Internet access again as protests continue (01/22/2018, Ripples Nigeria)
- One year of #BringBackOurInternet, six months of internet shutdown for citizens of English-speaking Cameroon (01/18/2018, Internet Sans Frontières)
- Pulling the plug on free expression: the rise of internet shutdowns to silence dissent (01/16/2018, Access Now)
- Nigerians must be proactive and demand government’s commitment to “no internet shutdown” – Paradigm Initiative (01/14/2018, YNaija)
- How to help #KeepItOn in Iran (01/10/2018, Access Now)
- South Sudan shuts down 3G network over security concerns (01/05/2018, Radio Tamazuj)
- Iran: State-sponsored internet and app shutdowns damage economies—and freedom (01/04/2018, Quartz)
- 2017 was the worst year ever for internet freedom in India (01/02/2018, Quartz India)
2017
- Internet and phone services cut in DRC ahead of anti-government protests (12/30/2017, The Guardian)
- Internet shutdowns: the “new normal” in government repression? (12/21/2017, Open Democracy)
- Kurdish forces arrest scores of civilians, cut off internet in Sulaymaniyah (12/20/2017, Iraq News Service)
- Internet shutdown in Udaipur, India due to communal tensions (12/19/2017, Medianama)
- Internet and phone services cut in DRC ahead of anti-government protests (12/30/2017, The Guardian)
- Internet shutdowns: the “new normal” in government repression? (12/21/2017, Open Democracy)
- Kurdish forces arrest scores of civilians, cut off internet in Sulaymaniyah (12/20/2017, Iraq News Service)
- Internet shutdown in Udaipur, India due to communal tensions (12/19/2017, Medianama)
- India: Protests in Kupwara after civilian gets killed; internet suspended across district (12/17/2017, Firstpost)
- Ethiopia has blocked social media sites as new Oromo protests hit the country (12/15/2017, Quartz Africa)
- (Video) Cameroonians interviewed on impacts of ongoing internet shutdown (12/14/2017, Deutsche Welle)
- India: Mobile Internet shutdown in North Kashmir (12/11/2017, Medianama)
- Internet shutdown in Yemen: Recurring disruptions threaten civilian safety, human rights, and press freedom (12/08/2017, Social Media Exchange)
- India: Video of brutal murder leads to internet shutdown (12/08/2017, The Hindu)
- Zimbabwe’s internet went down for about five hours. The culprit was reportedly a tractor (12/6/2017, Slate)
- Freeing Africa’s internet (11/27/2017, The Independent of Uganda)
- Cameroon has restricted internet access for more than 150 days in 2017 (11/27/2017, Quartz Africa)
- Pakistan: Activists assail blanket ban on social media (11/27/2017, The Nation)
- Internet Shutdown in 13 districts in Haryana, India over the weekend (11/27/2017, Medianama)
- The migration of political internet shutdowns (11/27/2017, Oracle Internet Intelligence)
- 45 days and counting: Cameroon’s internet shutdown (11/20/2017, Media Foundation for West Africa)
- The Paradigm Initiative asks MTN telecom to restore full internet service in Cameroon (11/18/2017, Ynaija)
- Telegram blocked in Pakistan! (11/17/2017, Propakistani)
- Cameroon: human rights must be respected to end cycle of violence (11/17/2017, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- The quiet battle for control of the internet (11/15/2017, OpenDemocracy)
- Equatorial Guinea: incumbent orders internet shutdown during election (11/12/2017, eNCA)
- Shuttering social media during Somaliland’s elections (11/10/2017, Human Rights Watch)
- Afghanistan will not block WhatsApp, Telegram: spokesman (11/06/2017, Reuters)
- Making the Internet disappear (10/18/2017, The Hindu)
- L’accès à Internet est devenu un véritable casse-tête en Afrique (10/18/2017, Africanews)
- La cybercensure coûte cher à l’Afrique (10/18/2017, Euronews)
- African rulers’ weapon against web-based dissent: the off switch (10/16/2017, Reuters)
- United Nations urged to intervene in Cameroon to stop the violence and internet shutdowns (10/6/2017, Access Now)
- In Cameroon and Spain, network shutdowns and interference as violence erupts (10/2/2017, Access Now)
- Cellular and internet services remained suspended in various cities across Pakistan in the wake of Ashura; millions affected (10/2/2017, Media Matters for Pakistan)
- La Guardia Civil corta la conexión a Internet a puntos de votación electoral (10/1/2017, Europa Press)
- Cameroon is disrupting the internet in its English-speaking regions to stifle protests again (10/1/2017, Quartz Africa)
- China blocks WhatsApp, broadening online censorship (9/25/2017, New York Times)
- Despite everything, Iraq is still shutting down the internet for school exams in 2017 (9/25/2017, Access Now)
- Dispatches from an internet shutdown — Togo (9/22/2017, Access Now)
- Catalonia: Spanish authorities try to shutter Catalan referendum websites, but so far stop short of full internet shutdown (9/22/2017, Politico)
- Pakistan: Internet access must be restored in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (9/21/2017, Bolo Bhi)
- WhatsApp’s role as a government protest tool is in the spotlight again as Togo blocks it (9/21/2017, Quartz Africa)
- Growing unease as India curbs the net to keep the peace (9/18/2017, Reuters)
- Togo latest country to lose web access as regimes increasingly shut down Internet to control protests (9/10/2017, Globe and Mail)
- Launching STOP: the #KeepItOn internet shutdown tracker (9/7/2017, Access Now)
- Togo: Opposition demonstration eclipsed by social media blackout (9/6/2017, Media Foundation for West Africa)
- Internet mobile bloqué au Togo, une atteinte à la libre expression en ligne (9/6/2017, Internet Without Borders)
- Government of India issues rules for internet shutdowns (8/28/2017, Medianama)
- India: Mobile internet, texting cut off for 50 million because of a guru’s rape trial (8/28/2017, Mashable)
- International Federation of Library Associations calls for an end to internet shutdowns (8/22/2017, IFLA)
- Pakistan: A Year Without Internet in the FATA region (8/21/2017, Future Tense / Slate)
- India: Darjeeling Internet Ban Completes Two Months (8/18/2017, SFLC.in)
- The Damage Caused by the 93-Day Internet Blackout in Cameroon (8/17/2017, Future Tense / Slate)
- Uproar over Internet shutdowns (8/15/2017, UN Africa Renewal Magazine)
- As polls close, Kenya upholds freedom of expression by keeping internet on (8/8/2017, Access Now)
- DRC opposition observes national shutdown, government blocks social media (8/8/2017, Africa News)
- Kenyan internet lobby groups prepare to stand their online ground (7/31/2017, IT Web Africa)
- Election watch: If Kenya orders an internet shutdown, will telcos help #KeepItOn? (7/26/2017, Access Now)
- India: Needed – a policy on internet shutdowns (7/10/2017, LiveMint)
- Ethiopia: Internet shutdown to relieve ‘psychological stress’ throughout exam period, despite lack of proof of cheating (7/4/2017, Capital)
- Venezuela: Resumen preliminar del incidente de bloqueo del 28 de junio de 2017 (6/29/2017, Vesinfiltro)
- Kenya: government says there will be no internet shutdown during elections (6/28/2017, Kenyans.co.ke)
- Something is happening in Congo-Brazzaville (6/20/2017, African Arguments)
- Mali: Internet Sans Frontières appelle le Gouvernement malien à maintenir l’accès à Internet (6/19/2017, Internet Sans Frontières)
- Kashmir: What it feels like to experience an internet shutdown and how it impacts women and journalists (6/6/2017, Feminism in India)
- No one knows who ordered the internet shutdown in Kashmir (6/3/2017, The Hindustan Times)
- Something is happening in Congo-Brazzaville (6/20/2017, African Arguments)
- Mali: Internet Sans Frontières appelle le Gouvernement malien à maintenir l’accès à Internet (6/19/2017, Internet Sans Frontières)
- Kashmir: What it feels like to experience an internet shutdown and how it impacts women and journalists (6/6/2017, Feminism in India)
- No one knows who ordered the internet shutdown in Kashmir (6/3/2017, The Hindustan Times)
- Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams (5/31/2017, The Guardian)
- Another Ethiopian Internet Shutdown During National Exams (5/31/2017, MosesKaranja.com)
- Ukraine’s internet ban fights fire with fire: it’s still censorship (5/26/2017, Access Now)
- Mobile Internet snapped in Saharanpur following caste clashes (5/25/2017, Medianama)
- How the J&K government is violating its own social media ban (5/18/2017, Huffington Post)
- We need to stop shutting down the internet for school exams (5/16/2017, Access Now)
- India must restore internet and social media networks in Jammu and Kashmir, say UN rights experts (5/11/2017, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- Will blocking social media apps replace Internet shutdowns in India? (5/2/2017, Medianama)
- Fighting Fire With Fire: African regional body proposes high costs for internet shutdowns (5/2/2017, Global Voices)
- The personal cost of internet shutdowns (4/30/2017, David Kaye/Storify)
- Kashmir: Social media banned for a month (4/27/2017, Kashmir Reader)
- Kashmir blocked 22 internet services to maintain ‘peace and tranquility’ (4/26/2017, BuzzFeed)
- Safaricom outage leaves millions off network for hours (4/24/2017, Daily Nation)
- Victory in Cameroon: after 94 days, the internet is back on (4/20/2017, Access Now)
- Cameroon ends internet shutdown on orders of President Paul Biya (4/21/2017, BBC News)
- Internet rétabli au Cameroun : Une victoire pour les citoyens, mais la vigilance demeure (4/21/2017, Internet Without Borders)
- Cameroon Restores Internet in Minority English-Speaking Areas (4/21/2017, Bloomberg News)
- African Free Expression Exchange welcomes restoration of internet access in Cameroon, urges government to release all arbitrarily detained (4/21/2017, AFEX)
- No more IP addresses for countries that shut down internet access (4/12/2017, The Register)
- 30 governments step it up to denounce internet shutdowns at RightsCon Brussels (4/6/2017, Access Now)
- Coupez internet ou limitez-en l’usage, l’information finit toujours par passer (4/5/2017, l’Echo)
- African internet registry (AFRINIC) criticizes internet shutdowns for undermining economy, education, and health (4/5/2017, AFRINIC)
- Ecuador: #EleccionesEC2017 Votaciones, silencio electoral e incidentes informáticos (4/3/2017, Usuarios Digitales)
- Internet society joins #KeepitOn, adding 110 chapters on 6 continents to campaign against internet shutdowns (3/30/2017, Internet Society)
- New campaign Keepusonline.in launches in India (3/21/2017, Internet Freedom Foundation)
- India had the highest number of internet shutdowns in 2016 in the world (3/21/2017, Huffington Post)
- Uganda Communications Commission dragged to court over ‘unlawful’ social media shutdown in 2016 elections (3/15/2017, PC Tech)
- Répression d’internet: la carte des coupures politiques (3/12/2017, France Culture)
- Statement on the use of internet and cellphone services in Africa (3/7/2017, Mo Ibrahim Foundation)
- Internet Shutdowns Have No Place in Digital India (3/6/2017, NDTV)
- Silencing the net: More governments want to kill access to Twitter and Facebook. Here’s how to beat them. (3/1/2017, Vice News)
- Civil society coalition implores telcos in Cameroon to step it up and restore internet services (2/15/2017, Access Now)
- UN expert urges Cameroon to restore internet services cut off in rights violation (2/10/2017, OHCHR)
- OONI: Mapping Countries that Censor the Internet (2/9/2017, The Atlantic)
- Why has Cameroon blocked the internet? (2/8/2017, BBC)
- Mobile carriers boost internet for U.S. inauguration events and demonstrations (1/5/2017, Access Now)
- #KeepItOn campaign reaches over 12 million people and delivers 45,927 signatures (12/7/2016, Associated Press)
- Iraq downs internet to combat cheating …again! (2/6/2017, Dyn Research)
- In the fight against government-ordered internet blackouts, where are Africa’s mobile providers? (2/5/2017, Quartz Africa)
- Cameroon goes offline after Anglophone revolt (2/2/2017, CNN)
- Global Network Initiative Concerned About Restrictions on Internet Access in Cameroon (1/25/2017, GNI)
- Cellphone providers brace for heavy inauguration use (1/21/2017, The Hill)
- Regional Internet Blackout in Cameroon (1/20/2017, Internet Without Borders)
- Yes, elections can be held in Africa without shutting down the internet (1/10/2017, Joy Online)
December 2016
- More African governments blocked the internet to silence dissent in 2016 (12/31/2016, Quartz Africa)
- Ethiopia: Internet shutdowns take their toll on economy (12/29/2016, African Business)
- Mobile payments affected by internet shutdowns in India (12/21/2016, Mashable)
- Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use (12/18/2016, Access Now)
- DR Congo plans to shut down social media ahead of next week’s political protests (12/15/2016, Quartz Africa)
- Report claims African governments stifling Internet expansion (12/14/2016, Guardian Nigeria)
- Ethiopia Internet users continue to receive bills for the service despite the government shutdown (12/13/2016, Abbay Media)
- Ethiopia Restores Internet Access Two Months Into A State of Emergency (12/6/2016, Associated Press)
- Gambia ruler predicts landslide; internet blocked amid vote (12/1/2016, Associated Press)
- Gambia’s Jammeh slams request to stabilize internet on election day (12/1/2016, Africa News)
November 2016
- Gambia shuts down internet on eve of elections (11/30/2016, Access Now)
- Lush and Access Now launch 404 “bath bomb” to fight internet shutdowns worldwide (11/23/2016, Access Now)
- The next stage in digital activism is brought to you by fancy soap (11/23/2016, Vice: Motherboard)
- U.S.: Freedom online – the global rise in intentional internet disruptions (11/21/2016, U.S. Department of State)
- Zimbabwe’s tightening grip on online communications (11/15/2016, Deutsche Welle)
- India slips in Internet Freedom score as Internet shutdowns continues to rise (11/14/2016, Economic Times)
- Freedom on the Net Report 2016: Silencing the messenger, Communication apps under pressure (11/14/2016, Freedom House)
- Bahrain: Duraz Internet Shutdown has cost residents more than 100,000 Bahraini Dinars (11/10/2016, Bahrain Watch)
October 2016
- Bleeding lives and money: the cost of internet shutdowns from Turkey to Bahrain (10/27/2016, Access Now)
- New report reveals economic cost of internet shutdowns (10/27/2016, Global Network Initiative)
- Turkey: New internet shutdown in Turkey’s Southeast: 8% of country now offline amidst Diyarbakir unrest (10/27/2016, Turkey Blocks)
- India: the cost of internet shutdowns (10/26/2016, The Indian Express)
- Ghana: we can’t ban social media – police (10/25/2016, Ghana Web)
- Five excuses governments (ab)use to justify internet shutdowns (10/24/2016, Deutsche Welle)
- Shut down the internet, and the economy goes with it (10/24/2016, MIT Technology Review)
- Study estimates cost of last year’s internet shutdowns at $2.4 billion (10/24/2016, TechCrunch)
- Internet shutdown could cost Ethiopia’s booming economy millions of dollars (10/19/2016, Quartz Africa)
- WhatsApp and Viber Blocked on Election Day in Montenegro (10/17/2016, Global Voices)
- Internet shutdowns cost India $1bn, more than any other country (10/14/2016, Hindustan Times)
- Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to “suppress” mass email leaks (10/10/2016, International Business Times)
- Cellphone services to be suspended across Pakistan during Muharram processions (10/10/2016, Dawn)
- WhatsApp reportedly blocked in Yemen, mobile operator cites “technical issues” (10/9/2016, Global Voices)
- Internet cut, arrest of bloggers, mass arrests not the solution – UN tells Ethiopia (10/7/2016, Africanews)
- Internet shutdowns cost Ethiopia $9 million last year (10/7/2016, CyberEthiopia)
- Governments blow billions by shutting off the internet to block cheating students and cheap phone calls (10/6/2016, Quartz)
- Global Network Initiative concerned by internet shutdown in Ethiopia (10/6/2016, Global Network Initiative)
- Internet blackouts can seriously damage a country’s economy (10/6/2016, The Atlantic)
- Access Now welcomes new report on economic impact of internet shutdowns (10/6/2016, Access Now)
- Ethiopia emerges from national mourning with more protests and an internet shutdown (10/5/2016, Quartz Africa)
- Iraq sends nationwide SMS message about pending internet shutdown (10/3/2016, Dyn Research)
- Robert Mugabe seizes on the latest political threat to his Zimbabwe: WhatsApp (10/2/2016, NY Times)
September 2016
- Ban on mobile internet for almost 80 days in Kashmir now is causing losses that may force many businesses to wind up or pack bags and leave the region (9/26/2016, Kashmir Monitor)
- Shutting down ideas (9/16/2016, Lush)
- This African country is taking an unprecedented step in internet censorship (9/16/2016, CNN Money)
- Internet shutdown in Turkey’s southeast (9/11/2016, Turkey Blocks)
- Where Digital India Ends (9/7/2016, Slate)
- Gabon : débrancher internet, le réflexe de l’autocrate (9/5/2016, Libération)
- This country’s internet has been blocked for 72 hours and counting (9/2/2016, Buzzfeed)
- French government calls on Gabon to stop internet disruption (9/3/2016, France Diplomatie)
- Bloqueo de aplicaciones en Argentina: un plan que se resiste a morir (9/2/2016, Access Now)
- Gabon is the latest African country to shut down its internet as election protests grow (9/2/2016, Quartz Africa)
August 2016
- Was internet bandwidth Limited by the government in Gabon during the election? (8/31/2016, Internet Sans Frontières)
- Coalition calls out Bahrain for sneakily shutting down the internet (8/23/2016, Access Now, Bahrain Watch)
- Zambian government suspected of causing internet shutdown following outage in opposition strongholds (8/18/2016, TechZim)
- Mali: Twitter et Facebook suspendus après la manifestation de Bamako (8/18/2016, Radio France Internationale)
- President of Ghana assures Ghanaians that will not shut down social media on election day (8/14/2016, 3News)
- It’d be crazy easy for Brazil to block the web right now (8/11/2016, Wired)
- Syria goes to extremes to foil cheaters (8/11/2016, Dyn Research)
- Ethiopia: Internet shutdown amidst recent protests? (8/10/2016, CIPIT)
- Bahrain’s internet shutdown marks a “new form of information control” (8/4/2016, The Verge)
- Bangladesh: telecoms authority holds drill on shutting down internet (8/1/2016, Daily Star)
July 2016
- On eve of Olympics, judge orders blocking of WhatsApp in Brazil (7/19/2016, Access Now)
- Tchad: une lettre ouverte contre les coupures d’accès aux réseaux sociaux (7/18/2016, Radio France International)
- Social media may have been blocked during Turkey coup attempt (7/15/2016, The Guardian)
- Social media goes dark during chaos in Turkey (7/15/2016, The Atlantic)
- Ethiopia blocks Facebook and other social media for exams (7/11/2016, BBC News)
- After Burhan Wani’s killing, mobile internet services suspended in Kashmir (7/9/2016, NDTV)
- Internet shutdown in Zimbabwe: what happened? (7/7/2016, Access Now)
- Countries that throttle access to Facebook are uncool, says UN (7/7/2016, Buzzfeed)
- UN rights council condemns internet blocking (7/1/2016, The Hill)
- UN passes landmark resolution condemning internet shutdowns (7/1/2016, Access Now)
June 2016
- Turkey’s internet censorship after the Istanbul attack is nothing new (6/30/2016, Mashable)
- Ghana police backtrack on plans to ban social media on election day (6/29/2016, Daily Trust)
- U.S. military official: Internet shutdowns don’t help during conflict (6/22/2016, Access Now)
- Jammu, India goes offline ahead of controversial wrestling event (6/22/2016, The Hindu)
- Algeria Reconsiders Blocking Social Media to Prevent Cheating on Exams (6/22/2016, SMEX)
- Algeria blocks Facebook, Twitter to stop exam cheats: state media (6/19/2016, Reuters)
- UN opposed to social media ban in Ghana – Ibn Chambas (6/18/2016, Joy Online)
- More African countries are blocking social media during elections (6/1/2016, Quartz Africa)
May 2016
- Ghana police chief criticized for proposed social media ban (5/27/2016, Voice of America)
- Iraq Shut Down Its Internet to Prevent Sixth-Graders From Cheating (5/16/2016, The Atlantic)
April 2016
- How African governments block social media (4/25/2016, BBC News)
- As Patidars clash with police — arrests, curfew, curbs on Internet (4/18/2016, The Indian Express)
- Mobile internet suspended in 5 districts in Kashmir, India (4/14/2016, Medianama)
- Twitter, WhatsApp Down in Oromia, Ethiopia after unrest (4/12/2016, Bloomberg)
- Internet remains cut in Chad after tense elections (4/11/2016, The Citizen)
March 2016
- Congo-Brazzaville imposes total communications blackout during election (3/22/2016, CPJ)
- In Turkey and globally, internet shutdowns hurt people and harm human rights (3/16/2016, Access Now)
February 2016