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Please share any first hand experience if you have faced any internet blockade anytime in last few years. I am seriously skeptical of the news portals now a days.

The reason for my skepticism is that I have never faced internet censorship. I was in Delhi till last June.

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There's plenty of systematic[1] as well as "oh there are protests, let's turn off internet in the area" types of censorship[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India#T...

[2]: https://www.dw.com/en/indias-internet-shutdowns-function-lik... (arrived at from [1])

Whether you face it or not depends on how often you have questioned or criticized the govt

I doubt the technical feasibility of this. How can internet be blocked only for one person in a city? There are gazillion ways to access internet.

For the technicaly informed and with enough money yes one can find a way to circumvent censorship. Govts make sure or tries to make sure that such means are illegal - even better, morally equivalent to terrorism

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