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...
Hamza Kashgari on trial in Saudi Arabia for a series of controversial tweets he posted to Twitter that reference the Prophet Muhammad. If found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
Read more...
The editors at Tea Leaf Nation talk about what China’s new internet regulations mean for microbloggers, speculate on Twitter’s future in China, and explain some of the techniques Chinese netizens are using to work around regulations and censorship.
Read more...
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai Thai news website, faces a possible 20-year jail sentence for not removing certain comments against the monarchy from her website quickly enough.
Read more...
In this interview the editor of the blog Coup Four and a Half talks about the changes that the lifting of the state of emergency will bring to Fiji, the censored stories of three killed tourists, and the steps the country needs to take in order to establish freedom of speech.
Read more...
