"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the system’s indifference." —Miadd Banki for Public Books
https://www.publicbooks.org/they-would-not-dream-of-flowers-translating-through-the-tehran-blackout/
As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death.
Is this where we’re headed too? Speculation that recent outages in Russia were tests for unplugging from internet & global community (similar to what’s already happening in Iran, also China). Population response: “Local media reported that retailers recorded a quick surge in demand for pagers, portable radios, stationary phones, media players and road maps, as the shutdowns gripped the capital.”
…
“Mohiuddin Ahmed, associate professor in cybersecurity at Adelaide University … said internet blackouts could become a "successful" strategy for governments to control domestic political unrest.
"Internet blackouts are put in place so that everyday people can't know what's going on in the rest of the world." “
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow-internet-shutdown-russia-test-censorship/69rjp4wai
#Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
#controlDomesticUnrest #RussianPolitics
نیلوفر
AHL8192
CBC World
CBC Top Stories
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
CBC Ottawa
Longreads
Su_G
Mathrubhumi English