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A new framework enables users to understand when the Internet “breaks” due to conflict or sanctions and how countries reconfigure their digital ties in response.

Pulse has recorded 22 intentional Internet shutdown events so far in 2024 that have affected Internet users across 12 countries.

As of the end of 2023, governments and other actors across 18 countries intentionally disrupted Internet connectivity or blocked access to specific Internet services for their citizens.

How does Ethiopia's recently-ended 158-day service-blocking shutdown compare to others ordered by governments around the world?

With the two largest populations in the world, India and China are also boasting the most IPv6 users in the world.

The Mongolian parliament is reviewing a controversial law that gives the minister of internal affairs the power to shut down access to the Internet.

Any network or routes disappearing from the global routing table portrays a grave picture because these are not just networks or IP addresses.

Once infrastructure denial is in play, its use to enforce international sanctions is in play as well.

2022 will be remembered as a year in which conflicts and crises shaped our collective attitudes toward infrastructure and the Internet in interesting ways.