I wrote about how Bangladesh spies on journalists, arrests people for freedom of expression and bans Bitcoin as part of a broader techno-surveillance state focused on control - now that nearly 200 are dead after protests and the Internet is being taken down by centralized authorities to hide videos and photos of the atrocities - we can see the real costs of these authoritarian, power-grabbing technical choices - along with real challenges to freedom money and freedom speech if we assume states are willing to take down the Internet in their borders.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/07/23/bangladesh-nearly-200-dead-under-the-cover-of-internet-censorship/