World's Worst Internet Shutdowns Cost India $2.8 Billion in 2020

Internet shutdowns cost India $2.8 billion, putting the South Asian nation at the top of a list of 21 countries that curbed citizens' web access in 2020. From a report: India -- the second-worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of overall confirmed infections -- accounted for about three-quarters of the $4 billion lost worldwide to internet curbs. Its losses more than doubled compared to 2019, a report from a U.K.-based digital privacy and security research group showed. Some countries known to limit Internet access or censor material like China and North Korea were not included in the report because researchers relied on publicly available open source information and documented internet and social media shutdowns. With 8,927 hours of blacked out or curbed bandwidth access, India restricted internet use more than any other nation, as restrictions originally imposed in 2019 continued throughout 2020, according to the Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns report released by Top10VPN.

Poor title

[278MorkandMindy]

"World's worse offenders for shutting down the internet"
"India shut down it's internet the most"

"Worlds worst Editors should get paid more (or move on) at /."

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[Aighearach]

They're only this world's worst editors; send them to Ork!

Let me guess...

[Nidi62]

Yep, mostly due to the (non-covid) lockdown in Kashmir. A low-grade insurgency has been running there for a decade or 2, with the Indian government basically declaring martial law and getting away with such things as murdering laborers and then planting guns on them, and using pellet guns to blind protestors. Oh, yeah, and almost completely cutting off internet and phone service in the region.

Re: Let me guess...

[reanjr]

If you cut off the Internet and kill innocents to fight terrorism, then it's time to recognize that you are not the sovereign of that land and you are an invading force.

whodathunk?

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

Crap infrastructure can see the river of gold turn into a drip. More at 11.

Did it really cost India 2.8B?

[wyattstorch516]

Or did it cost the companies operating in India 2.8B? If you want to offshore vital company operations to a country with incredibly unreliable Internet service or to a country that does not believe in private property then don't be surprised when it bites you in the ass.