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Last year, when California’s utilities first began carrying out widespread blackouts like this, some homes and businesses were left in the dark for days.
CALIFORNIA FACES WIDESPREAD POWER CUTS AFTER WEEKS OF DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRESKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 8, 2020FORTUNEHome to over 12 million people, the region has suffered tremendously as a result—unemployment has spiked and over $1 billion in economic losses have been attributed to the blackout.
PODCAST: HOW A 135-YEAR-OLD LAW LETS INDIA SHUTDOWN THE INTERNETANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn the past few years, India has imposed hundreds of internet blackouts in different parts of the country, sometimes just for hours, sometimes for months.
PODCAST: HOW A 135-YEAR-OLD LAW LETS INDIA SHUTDOWN THE INTERNETANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIndia has imposed hundreds of internet blackouts in different parts of the country over the past few years, including cutting off connectivity throughout the disputed state of Kashmir for six months.
PODCAST: HOW A 135-YEAR-OLD LAW LETS INDIA SHUTDOWN THE INTERNETANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn Kashmir, the blackout meant that switching schools—and businesses to the internet—was a nonstarter.
HOW INDIA BECAME THE WORLD’S LEADER IN INTERNET SHUTDOWNSKATIE MCLEANAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWAlthough dawn was yet to break, she immediately set to thinking about what a blackout would mean for her and her work.
HOW INDIA BECAME THE WORLD’S LEADER IN INTERNET SHUTDOWNSKATIE MCLEANAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWell, he certainly wasn't much of a perceptive, or he would have been able to handle the Blackout himself.
VIGORISHGORDON RANDALL GARRETTMy Blackout victim was reaching out, trying to find something he could use to raise himself to his feet.
VIGORISHGORDON RANDALL GARRETTI picked her up in my arms and carried her to the same sawdust-strewn private dining room where I'd given Barney the Blackout.
VIGORISHGORDON RANDALL GARRETTA Blackout is quite effective—it's hard to hit what you can't see.
VIGORISHGORDON RANDALL GARRETTWORDS RELATED TO BLACKOUT
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