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    Internet Shutdowns, Content Blocking, and Democratic Backsliding: A Critical Evaluation of IT Act Mechanisms in Maintaining Public Order versus Suppressing Voice,”
    (NLUJAA, 2026) Amin Rosul Barbhuiya
    The internet has ceased to be a luxury and has become the essential infrastructure of modern democratic life. It is the medium through which citizens communicate with each other and with their governments, through which journalists report on public affairs, through which political parties organise and campaign, through which students learn, through which businesses operate, and through which civil society holds state power accountable . When a government orders the internet to be shut down whether by cutting off access entirely, throttling it to a speed that makes it practically useless, or blocking specific platforms or websites it is not merely disrupting a communications service. It is disrupting the exercise of the most fundamental rights that a democratic constitution guarantees its citizens. It is suppressing speech, preventing assembly, disrupting livelihoods, and degrading the informational environment upon which democratic selfgovernance depends.