Week in Review: March 9, 2018
In this week in review, Internet Monitor covers evidence of Internet tampering in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, Indonesia block of Tumblr, and EFF's infographics on platform censorship
In this week in review, Internet Monitor covers evidence of Internet tampering in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, Indonesia block of Tumblr, and EFF's infographics on platform censorship
The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship, released today, documents the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites. The study finds evidence of filtering in 26 countries across four broad content themes: political, social, topics related to conflict and security, and Internet tools (a term that includes censorship circumvention tools as well as social media platforms). The majority of countries that censor content do so across all four themes, although the depth of the filtering varies.
This week Internet Monitor examines the "right to disconnect" in France, an Indonesian company that removed LGBT-themed emojis from its webpage, the state of social platforms in Ankara after the latest bombing, a new GIF search function on Twitter, and rising tensions between the U.S. Department of Justice and Apple over encryption.
This week, Internet Monitor checks out the case of Islam Gawish, Netflix's quagmire in Indonesia, Google's tax predicament in France, and the state of the FISA Amendments Act.
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: attacks by Anonymous-affiliated hackers in the Philippines and Australia, Brazil takes its data domestic, and more!
In this week's #IMWeekly: a new US surveillance reform bill, hacktivism in Singapore, and more.