Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
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Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#2Just another day in Pakistan. The mob rules or the army rules. It is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#3Khan has been arrested in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case, in which the former prime minister and his wife have been accused of receiving “billions of rupees from a real estate firm for legalising a laundered amount of Rs 50 billion”, Dawn reported. The former PM has been facing a clutch of cases since his ouster through a no trust vote in April last year. At present, he is facing over 140 cases related to terrorism, blasphemy, murder, violence, inciting to violence. However, he has rejected all these cases as political victimisation by the ruling alliance.
https://indianexpress.com/article/pakistan/imran-khan-arrest...
More on "the Al-Qadir Trust case":
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global...
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
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Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#5“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook”
-Truman
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#6I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to the internet is unilaterally impossible. Major powers being able to pull the rug on what has become a foundation of modern society like this is too scary of a thing to allow. What could the answer be? Satellite-powered relays and DIY-able user devices to talk to them?
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#7Khan has been arrested in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case, in which the former prime minister and his wife have been accused of receiving “billions of rupees from a real estate firm for legalising a laundered amount of Rs 50 billion”, Dawn reported. The former PM has been facing a clutch of cases since his ouster through a no trust vote in April last year. At present, he is facing over 140 cases related to te…
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Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#8I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to the internet is unilaterally impossible. Major powers being able to pull the rug on what has become a foundation of modern society like this is too scary of a thing to allow. What could the answer be? Satellite-powered relays and DIY-able user devices to talk to them?
Peer-peer wifi mesh based intranet could become a solution
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#9I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to the internet is unilaterally impossible. Major powers being able to pull the rug on what has become a foundation of modern society like this is too scary of a thing to allow. What could the answer be? Satellite-powered relays and DIY-able user devices to talk to them?
Whoever provides the infrastructure needs to be paid though right?
How do you pay the satellite provider?
Re: Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
#10From an info overload/attention spike/network theory context how similar are these intenet shutdowns to brain seizures?