Panic! at the Cisco: Authoritarian Internet Shutdowns

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Brief Overview

I construct a daily data set on internet outages from 2014 to 2020 in more than 200 countries by analyzing usage of Google products and Tor VPN service, and the number of unavailable IPs. I establish that weak autocrats pull the plug when threatened.

Author

• Agabek Kabdullin, University of Rochester