Don't Praise the Sri Lankan Government for Blocking Facebook
Apr 24, 2019•8 min
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Episode description
After a series of bombings killed over 300 people in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday, the country’s government blocked access to social media sites including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and the chat app Viber, according to state media and independent organizations that monitor internet blocks.
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