“Splinternet” refers to the way the Internet is being splintered — broken up, divided, separated, locked down, boxed up, or otherwise segmented. Whether for nation-states or corporations, there’s money and control to be had by influencing what information people can access and share, as well as the costs that are paid for this access. The ...
In a surprising move, Google has decided to block domain fronting from its cloud infrastructure that allowed people to bypass government censorship and access blocked websites. No more “Don’t Be Evil.” The Internet giant is also setting up a special version of its search engine for China. And guess what’s “special” about it? The search ...
Since December, some of China’s top universities have been forced to edit their charters to align their views with Communist Party ideals. At Fudan University in Shanghai, officials removed all references to “freedom of thought,” triggering an intense backlash from students who are concerned about losing their free speech. Censorship of free speech in universities ...
Asian countries are swiftly mimicking China’s authoritarian policies, according to a report prepared by rights groups Forum-Asia and Civicus. The People Power Under Attack 2019 report found increasing instances of censorship, and the restriction of political and democratic rights. Asian authoritarianism “In this region, out of 25 countries, four are rated as closed, eight repressed ...
It has come to light that Shutterstock, one of the largest stock photography websites in the world, is blocking searches in China in line with Beijing’s censorship policies. This is yet another instance of an American company censoring itself to maintain access to the Chinese market. Shutterstock censoring itself in China “Anyone with a mainland ...
Internet censorship by authoritarian governments prohibits free and open access to information for millions of people around the world. Attempts to evade such Internet censorship have turned into a continually escalating race to keep up with ever-changing, increasingly sophisticated strategies. Censoring regimes have had the advantage in that race because researchers must manually search for ...
Russia’s ever-tightening grip on its citizens’ Internet access through censorship has troubling implications for Internet freedom in the United States and other countries that share its decentralized network structure, according to a University of Michigan study. Released a week after a sweeping, additional censorship law called Sovereign RUnet took effect in Russia, the researchers say ...
China pursues a very strict Internet policy where foreign companies are only allowed to operate in the country provided they adhere to Beijing’s censorship norms. As a consequence, Chinese citizens are left with no choice but to keep using local search engines like Baidu, which have been criticized for providing substandard services. Baidu’s market dominance ...
Marianne Díaz Hernández, a lawyer from Venezuela, has received the Human Rights Hero award at the RightsCon 2019 summit held in Tunis. She was given the award for heading advocate groups against the ruling Maduro regime’s policies that restricted personal freedoms, including free access to the Internet. Defending Internet freedom Ten years ago, Díaz began ...
Freedom of information once again is threatened in China as the Wikipedia owner confirms that the online encyclopedia is no longer accessible in that country. The reason behind it boils down to one of the most sensitive anniversaries in China — the June 4 Tiananmen protest. Goodbye Wikipedia The Open Observatory of Network Interference, an ...
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