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# From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression
- URL: https://werd.io/from-the-arab-spring-to-russian-censorship-a-decade-of/
- Published: 2022-04-26T13:09:23.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-26T13:09:23.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Over the last six months, Rest of World spoke to more than 70 technologists, telecomms experts, activists, and journalists from around the world to track how governments’ control over the internet has grown and evolved during the past decade. Their testimony shows that the free, open, global internet is under severe threat.”

\[[Link](https://restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/)\]