By BBC World Service
Published February 14, 2023 3:00pm
Within hours of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake across Turkey and northern Syria, the internet in Turkey was partially shutdown. And it wasn’t just because of damage to network infrastructure from the quake itself, but Twitter was blocked, as the authorities raised concerns over misinformation online.
Internet shutdowns are used by governments around the world to control people’s access to information, for example during protests, but also somewhat surprisingly to prevent cheating during public examinations.
Shutting down the internet costs individuals and countries huge amounts of money. The TopTenVPN annual report which analysed every major inte...