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Comment by stewx | Hacker News Reader

How does cutting off Internet access across the board not dramatically hamper daily life and business? They must rely a lot less on it than we do in highly developed countries.

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The country has been in a brutal civil war for a decade now, with something like half the population displaced from their homes.

Internet's probably not on the top of the list of things you count on.

On the contrary, I think Internet access would be even more important in that kind of situation

You can't eat internet access, or use internet access for shelter or self-defense, so it's probably not important for a lot of people.

No but you can use it to check news and current events, safety conditions, communicate with friends and family, and find information to help you survive better

you definitely can use it to learn about threats or to find shelter or food

Fortunately for them things seem to have entered in a status-quo that strongly resembles peace since the Battle of Aleppo ended (that was about 4 years ago) and more generally since the Syrian Army's latest offensive in Idlib was stalled by the Turkish troops (late 2019 - early 2020).

Nowadays there's a new meme in the form of "Tell me you're X without telling me you're X".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tell-me-without-telling-me

This is a good example of "Tell me you're a backwards country without telling me you're a backwards country." (if there's any insult meant, it's towards the leaders of that country bombing it to the stone age).

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