Digital rights lessons from Zimbabwe’s Internet shutdown

The dust raised by Zimbabwe’s Internet shutdown has finally settled and it is now the appropriate time to see what lessons we can glean from that incident.

Before the Internet shutdown, digital rights were an abstract issue for most Zimbabweans.

The importance and impact of digital rights in our daily lives was not really apparent or felt — that was until the six-day shutdown, which shall go down in history as one of government’s most brazen attacks on our constitutional liberties.

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