Internet Shutdown always brings big losses to countries. In 2021, there were a lot of shutdowns in various countries. As usual, African countries bear the biggest losses because of this, since the shutdown lasted the longest in them, for example, in Ethiopia it lasted as much as 8,864 hours.
Myanmar ranks first in terms of losses for 2021. Just imagine, it cost $2.8 billion and the shutdown lasted 12,238 hours. What is interesting and unusual from this year’s statistics is that India ranks 3rd in terms of losing money, in previous years the country did not appear in the top 10, however, now it is in 3rd place due to the huge number of people deprived of the Internet. Talking about Europe, I think we can only mention Belarus with its long shutdown, which was introduced due to protests. TopVPN10 said that Twitter was the most blocked social media platform in 2021 that saw 10 shutdowns for a total of 12,379 hours. Facebook and Meta’s other offerings namely WhatsApp and Instagram were among the other two platforms most impacted in the year, the website highlighted.
After all, we all understand that shutdowns always bring a lot of costs and troubles to people. In today’s world, it’s hard to imagine your day without the Internet, and if such a shutdown lasts for a long time, people can generally lose their jobs, lose themselves, and so on.
Forgot about the sources:
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/internet-shutdowns-outage-india-global-cost-usd-5-45-billion-30000-hours-top10vpn-2705685
A lot of money, it was fun to read
How intriguing it may not sound, this amount seems quite reasonable, as today’s economy is highly dependent on the internet.
It’s really interesting how much nowadays everything depends on the internet. One shutdown can be such painful into our economy it’s even not easy to imagine.