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Internet shutdowns around the world

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The History of Internet Shutdowns

Every computer on the internet with your phone or whatever has an address called an internet protocol IP address that uniquely identifies it. And it connects you to servers using that address. Using a virtual private network, you can change the apparent IP address of your machine. So it looks like it's somewhere else and its traffic is rooted in a different way,. which allows it to get through some forms of blocking on internet traffic.

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