[Air-L] VIDEO: Internet Shutdowns and the Silencing of Dissent @Internews

[Joly MacFie]

Stream from this morning. H/T to Judith Hellerstein for bringing it to our
attention.



[image: Internews] <https://www.internews.org/>Earlier today, *Thursday
March 2 2017*, *Internews <https://www.internews.org/>* presented *Internet
Shutdowns and the Silencing of Dissent
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-shutdowns-and-the-silencing-of-dissent-tickets-32090640971>*
at
Google in Washington DC. From nation-wide shutdowns in Uganda and Gambia to
targeted ones in Cameroon and India, restrictions and full blackouts of
internet service have become a favorite tool of autocratic and repressive
regimes. Shutdowns have wide-ranging effects on everything from political
speech to commerce. Internet freedom activists and policy experts from the
front
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lines of shutdown battles discussed their advocacy work, the trends they
are seeing, and how internet shutdowns affect the daily lives of their
fellow citizens. Speakers: *Mishi Choudhary*, President and Founding
Director for Software Freedom Law Center, India; *Arsene Tungali*,
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Rudi International, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo; *Carolina Botero*, Director of Fundacion Karisma,
Colombia. Moderator: *Kat Duffy*, VP of Global Technology Programs,
Internews. Video is below.

*View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/2CmpZCRKehc
*Twitter*: #internetshutdowns
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/internetshutdowns?f=tweets>

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