Policy Critique7 min readDraft
Internet shutdowns are usually presented as temporary security tools. They are framed as necessary, exceptional, and preventive. But they often reveal something more basic: the state has chosen blunt control over accountable governance.
Shutdowns interrupt work, education, journalism, emergency coordination, and ordinary public life. They also make it harder to document what is happening at the precise moment documentation matters most.
A secure society should not need to disappear its own communications infrastructure to manage public order.
Shutdowns make governance look decisive while making public life less accountable.
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