Service blocking
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On the day of the June 7 peaceful demonstration, even though the Liberian Government had deployed many tactics ahead of the protest to thwart the efforts of the organizers and to make Liberians afraid, hundreds of thousands of Liberians braved the storms and came out in their drove to tell their government that they aren’t satisfied with how the state of affairs is being handled by the George Weah-led administration. The whole of Monrovia, which is the central nerve of the entire country, was practically shut down with no viable economic activities taking place in all of the economic zones in the city. Waterside, Vai Town, Redlight, Duala and other places where economic activities are concentrated, were practically emptied even though it was not a national holida. The Liberian Government, on the day of the protest, basically shutdown the Internet in the country.
Local impact
On the day of the June 7 peaceful demonstration, even though the Liberian Government had deployed many tactics ahead of the protest to thwart the efforts of the organizers and to make Liberians afraid, hundreds of thousands of Liberians braved the storms and came out in their drove to tell their government that they aren’t satisfied with how the state of affairs is being handled by the George Weah-led administration. The whole of Monrovia, which is the central nerve of the entire country, was practically shut down with no viable economic activities taking place in all of the economic zones in the city. Waterside, Vai Town, Redlight, Duala and other places where economic activities are concentrated, were practically emptied even though it was not a national holida. The Liberian Government, on the day of the protest, basically shutdown the Internet in the country.
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Urgent: #Liberia's leading wireless internet provider Lonestar has restricted access to social media as well as AP News, which covered this morning's events and censorship during #SavetheState protests in Monrovia #KeepItOn 📉https://t.co/wlvTPHjK3Z pic.twitter.com/iACkwRlOrX— NetBlocks (@netblocks) June 7, 2019
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