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“Shutting down the internet during a
global health crisis is incredibly unsafe,” said
Felicia Anthonio, Campaigner and #KeepItOn Lead at
Access Now. “But, with no regard for human life,
this is what governments did in 2020 again, and again,
and again. As our new report,
Shattered dreams and lost
opportunities: a year in the fight to #KeepItOn,
dissects, there is no fathomable excuse to justify these
abhorrent government actions.”
The report’s key
findings from 2020 include:
There were
For
the third year in a row,
India shut down the
internet more than any other nation a total of
at least
109 times;