Sri Lanka attack: Internet shutdowns are more common than you think

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Sri Lanka attack: Internet shutdowns are more common than you think
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Sri Lankan authorities instituted social media restrictions after several deadly bombings on Sunday — a tactic that experts said is increasingly common around the world.

on Sunday — a tactic that experts said is increasingly common around the world: the government-imposed internet shutdown.

Governments use"a panorama of strategies to control information — this is just one of the most flagrant manifestations of that," Rydzak said. Some of those countries appeared to take notice, and they cut down on post-attack shutdowns, he said. They also seemed to realize not only how popular the services were — and how shutdowns could easily trigger a backlash — but also how governments could use them for their own purposes.

People used their mobile phones at the Francisco Fajardo highway, where they could get telephone service, during a partial power failure in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 9.But it's not as if it's unheard of. Three days before the bombings in Sri Lanka, the nonpartisan non-governmental organizationon YouTube, Google applications and Bing in Venezuela. The blackouts occurred as the country's opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, was live-streaming an assembly speech in Caracas.

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