India is the world leader when it comes to cutting off access to the internet, activists say, despite the country’s ambition to be a digital superpower.

Seven million Kashmiris have been offline since August, and over the past week mobile internet was cut for tens of millions of others during demonstrations against a new citizenship law criticized as anti-Muslim.

Mumbai student Suvarna Salve said she and her friends started formulating tweets and eye-catching memes hours after the legislation was passed.

“We are using technology to amplify our message by means of tweets, posters, hashtags on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and even Telegram to mobilize people to come in large numbers to register their dissent,” Salve told AFP.

“We are using social media with common hashtags to keep them on top of India trends,” Salve said, adding that she was inspired by the youth-led pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.