Man looks at the Internet blackouts sweeping India and the world. How governments are throttling internet speeds, voicemails to 313-MAN-0231. network disruptions, network shutdowns, Internet shutdowns, or blackouts of digital channels, particularly social media, mobile comm (WhatsApp, Voice over Internet Procol [VoIP] services ). The emergence of Internet refugees or digital refugees. Throttling, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). autonomous systems (AS), packet dropping, IP blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, URL filtering, or any combination