North Korea blocks Instagram, the Cuban government announces plans to expand internet access next month, Australia passes an anti-piracy bill, and more, in our Week in Review.

Muira McCammon talks to Nicko Margolies (Politwoops' Project Lead at the Sunlight Foundation), Arjan El Fassed (Director of the Open State Foundation), and Prof. Michael Beurskens (a Twitter researcher and intellectual property law lecturer based at the University of Bonn in Germany) about the recent Politwoops shutdown.

This week, Internet Monitor checks out Belgium's not so private problem with Facebook's privacy policies, what can no longer be read on Reddit, Pakistan's abandoned plan to tax the Internet, Chinese efforts to hack away at American federal employees' records, and Wikimedia's decision to encrypt all of its sites.

Tomorrow, David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and speech, will present a report on encryption and freedom of expression to the Human Rights Council. Here's what you should know about the report and why it matters.

Internet Monitor goes on a field trip to the Museum of Crimes of Thought, a virtual effort to explain the Turkish penal and legal system to netizens far and wide. 

This week, Internet Monitor looks at censorship on the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the case of a Saudi Arabian blogger's arrest, and more.

This week, Internet Monitor looks at the state of government-run surveillance efforts in France, the USA, and Paraguay; recent social media bans in Nauru; and a recent UN report on encryption and anonymity.