Week in Review: August 3, 2018
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers Internet access during elections in Cambodia and Mali, an OONI report on South Sudan, and Google’s plans to launch a censored search engine in China.
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers Internet access during elections in Cambodia and Mali, an OONI report on South Sudan, and Google’s plans to launch a censored search engine in China.
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers Internet Society’s snapshot of post-hurricane Caribbean connectivity, a Russian human rights group's report on Russian Internet content controls, and Cambodia’s block of The Cambodia Daily’s website.
Rupert Winchester, a British national, has been working as a journalist in Cambodia since 2011. Since he's gotten to the country, he's often cross-posted more long-form versions of his journalistic articles on his personal blog. One of his blog posts has now made him the target of a thorny defamation ruling – one that is raising questions about the landscape for online free expression in the country.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Brunei's netizens are finding their way around Sharia Law's free speech restrictions, a Cambodia-based blogger gets a heavy fine on dubious defamation charges, and Iraq starts filtering sites critical of the central government.