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		lacker on Oct 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Insta... Then Iraq would have to make it illegal to own this sort of internet connection. A country like North Korea could do that, but not a country like Iraq or Cameroon that has some degree of normal freedom but intermittently shuts off the internet.

TeMPOraL on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

A country willing and easily able to shut down the Internet is also perfectly able to temporarily limit or ban civilian use of a frequency range.

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