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https://www.thedailystar.net/india/news/3-photojournalists-jammu-kashmir-win-pulitzer-prize-1899742 https://www.thedailystar.net/india/news/3-photojournalists-j
by 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
https://www.thedailystar.net/india/news/3-photojournalists-jammu-kashmir-win-pulitzer-prize-1899742 https://www.thedailystar.net/india/news/3-photojournalists-j...
"So the AP photographers went to the Srinagar airport and sought out strangers willing to carry memory cards and flash drives to New Delhi and call AP after landing in the Indian capital."
this is more common and more recent than any cold war thing
- thriftwy 4y agoI wonder why they didn't use Dropbox.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agothere was no internet for 5-8 odd months for a around 8 million people. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-restores-4g-mobile-internet-kashmir-after-18-month-ban-n1256930 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-restores-4g-mobile-... A blanket internet ban, the longest in a democracy, which rights activists dubbed a "digital apartheid," came into effect in 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/the-personal-and-economic-cost-of-kashmirs-internet-ban https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/the-personal-a...