It has been over a month since Thailand’s military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), overtook the country’s government during a May 22 coup. Since then, the NCPO has aimed to consolidate political control of the country, moving online to restrict access to information.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Australia announces a controversial surveillance bill, Iraqi netizens find a way around internet blockages, and Russia targets extremism on Twitter.
Recent social media censorship in Pakistan has sparked renewed attention to the country's blasphemy laws and how they're applied online.
Six members of the Ethiopian blogging collective Zone Nine have been imprisoned for 63 days.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Twitter frees up "blasphemous" tweets in Pakistan, an Internet shutdown in Iraq, and one of the largest DDoS attacks ever in Hong Kong.
In this week's #IMWeekly: NSA spying on online gamers, North Korea purges online content related to recently executed official, and more!
In this week's #IMWeekly: new leaks reveal NSA collection of phone data even broader than previously thought, Iran arrests cyberactivists despite reform promises, Huawei to take its business elsewhere than US, and more!
In this week's #IMWeekly: Australian spying angers Indonesian government, US Supreme Court denies first challenge to NSA surveillance, and more!
In this week's #IMWeekly: Iranian censorship of Wikipedia, US surveillance reform, and more!