Security personnel patrolling a street after violence erupted during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Lucknow, India, on Friday (Dec 20). Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have so far left eight people dead and more than 1,200 others detained. - AP
MUMBAI: With the world's cheapest data, young Indians have lapped up Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp. But when these toys are used as tools to organise protests or fuel unrest, the government gets scared.
India is the world leader when it comes to cutting off access to the internet, activists say, despite the country's ambition to be a digital superpower.
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