Internet Shutdowns
Who Shuts Down the Internet the Most?
Based on 908 shutdowns we've tracked since 2018
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- Americas
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Ongoing
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ongoing shutdowns around the world
94
Internet shutdowns around the world since December 2024
14
countries have experienced a total or partial Internet shutdown since December 2024
Since December 2024, the world’s population has lost a total of
21,551 hours
of access to the Internet due to intentional disruptions.
Over the past 12 months, we estimate that
US $74,538,070
has been lost in combined GDP across all countries that have experienced Internet shutdowns
Shutdowns
May 2019
908 shutdowns
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Past
Regional shutdown
Mobile Internet Services
Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were gunned down on Thursday in an encounter with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. The encounter broke out in Dangarpora village of North Kashmir's Sopore. Troops from the Rashtriya Rifles, the Special Operations Group of the police and the Central Reserve Police Force launched the operation in the early hours after getting information about the presence of militants in the area. As a precaution, authorities have suspended mobile internet services and closed all educational institutions in Sopore.
India
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Past
Regional shutdown
Mobile Internet Services
Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir
A gunfight broke out between the militants and the security forces at a village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district shortly after dawn on Wednesday. According to local news gathering agency GNS, the gunfight broke out in Tazipora Mohammadpora village after the forces launched a search operation in the area following a tip-off about the presence of militants there. Mobile Internet was snapped in Kulgam as precautionary measure soon after the firefight began, it quoted an official as having said.
India
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- Total Duration 1 day, 11 hours
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Past
National shutdown
Iraq
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- Total Duration 4 days
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Past
Regional shutdown
Tral and parts of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir
India
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- Total Duration 1 day
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Past
Service blocking
Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger
Primary websites belonging to some of the services remain reachable according network data, although certain backend services are restricted preventing ordinary operation of the websites and mobile apps. Facebook backend servers used by Facebook Messenger and Instagram also appear among those affected as well as those used by WhatsApp, limiting image and video sharing features. Telegram includes censorship circumvention measures, although users have already reported difficultly with the messaging app.
Indonesia
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- Total Duration 3 days
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Past
National shutdown
Malawi
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- Total Duration 1 day
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Past
Regional shutdown
Mobile Internet services
Kulgam, Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir
Two militants were killed on Wednesday by security forces in an encounter which ensued during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in the south Kashmir district of Kulgam, official sources said. Internet service has been suspended in Kulgam, where clashes erupted at several places.
India
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Past
Service blocking
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive
The already-slow internet in Tajikistan ground even slower this week following criticism from President Emomali Rahmon, who expressed fears about the risk of online communication bolstering terrorism. Speaking at a meeting of post-Soviet security officials on May 21, Rahmon said more needed to be done to combat the activity of extremists in the virtual space. By the same evening, Tajik authorities had sprung into action, extending the blockages on websites to all Google resources, which meant that internet users could not access Gmail, YouTube or Google Drive, among other things. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites are also off-limits. VPNs, the software that many use to circumvent blocks, are also performing patchily. And people with Android telephones cannot experiment with downloading any others since Google Play is blocked.
Tajikistan
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- Total Duration 8 days
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Past
Service blocking
Guangdong Province, Shanghai, Chongqing, and other places
The incident disrupted over one hundred services. Cisco reported that both users in China attempting to reach sites hosted external to China, as well as users outside of China trying to connect to sites hosted within China would have been impacted. China Telecom controls and manages infrastructure beyond the country’s borders, and also maintains global interconnects, peering with service providers in many locations around the world
China
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- Total Duration 11 days
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Past
Regional shutdown
Public Wifi
London Metro
Police have shut down the public's access to wifi on the London Underground in an attempt to disrupt planned protests by climate protesters.
United Kingdom
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