Week in Review: August 10, 2018
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers Internet shutdowns in Bangladesh and Ethiopia, and China blocking the BBC.
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers Internet shutdowns in Bangladesh and Ethiopia, and China blocking the BBC.
This Thanksgiving, Internet Monitor checks out the latest Facebook hoax, Anonymous' efforts to combat ISIS online, Internet filtering by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, and an Austrian lawsuit against Facebook.
Bangladesh's Infoladies, a group of 56 women in their early twenties, are providing the nation's impoverished rural citizens with Internet connectivity. In a country that enjoys little in the way of widespread Internet access, the work of the Infoladies is allowing economically disenfranchised groups to gain access to information and resources that help them survive.
In this week's IM Weekly: amendments to Bangladesh's IT Act have activists worried; how Brazil's proposed data law might affect privacy; and more.