I imagine they were planning to do this before what happened in the US with Twitter banning Trump. Ethiopia shut off telecommunication with the province of Tigr

I imagine they were planning to do this before what happened in the US with Twitter banning Trump. Ethiopia shut off telecommunication with the province of Tigray when conflict heated up this year (it still may be cut off). According to the article, Uganda shut off communication (Facebook, Twitter, and Whatsapp) in Feb 2016. I think that because many of us are in the US and just witnessed Twitter banning Trump we are falling prey to recency bias [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias