In August Taiwan deliberately slowed down its own mobile internet, and the rest of the year has been busy proving it right. The civil defence exercises of 5 to 14 August throttled bandwidth on purpose in two thirty-minute windows, to test what the island’s communications would feel like under blockade. The defence ministry rehearsed relocating […]
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