Google and Opera appear to have been blocked in Turkmenistan — or have they? Neweurasia‘s Anna Soltan explores the mix of censorship, incompetence, and terrible infrastructure that constitutes the “shoddy omnipotence” of government digital control, and why this is both a source of distress and hope.
Read more...
Nighat Dad is a lawyer and research associate from Pakistan who focuses on government policies that hamper citizens’ use of information and communication technologies. Governments worldwide are trying to introduce legislation for cyber-censorship, curbing the privacy [...]
Read more...
Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on March 12, 2012) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions that is accessible to all.
Read more...
From Wikileaks to Blue Coat, we take a look at the fighters and facilitators of electronic surveillance technology and the repressive regimes that make use of the technology to monitor and censor citizens.
Read more...
The Venezuelan state media under President Hugo Chávez, says veteran journalist Gregorio Salazar, seeks to establish ‘information hegemony’ by systematically closing private media outlets and using hacking and phone tapping to intimidate the media, dissidents and the opposition.
Read more...
Excerpts of Ahmed Mansoor’s blog. Mansoor was arrested in the United Arab Emirates for signing a petition demanding constitutional reform. He is boycotting his own trial.
Read more...
Thousands gathered in cities around Turkey on May 15 to protest Internet censorship legislation that will require citizens to install filters on their computers and that opponents say is akin to wiretapping.
Read more...
Just before Iran, Burma ranked second to last in Internet freedom in a report called Freedom on the Net 2011, released on Monday by information watchdog Freedom House.
Read more...
Reporters Without Borders released a new 100-page report on the state of online freedom of expression in the 10 countries it has identified as “Enemies of the Internet” and the 16 countries it is keeping “under surveillance” because of their questionable Internet policies.
Read more...
On the eve of the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders awarded its 2011 Netizen Prize to the founders of Nawaat, a Tunisian blogging group.
Read more...
World Class Web Hosting® provided as a public service by pair Networks®. Learn more at www.pair.com.
