Week in Review: June 16, 2017
This week, we cover Pakistan’s first death sentence for social media blasphemy, China’s reproach of its Internet censors, and Egypt’s crackdown of media and increased surveillance after its April terrorist attacks.
This week, we cover Pakistan’s first death sentence for social media blasphemy, China’s reproach of its Internet censors, and Egypt’s crackdown of media and increased surveillance after its April terrorist attacks.
This week, the Internet Monitor gets the 4-1-1 on the scope of Internet shutdowns in India and around the world, discusses the future of free speech on the Internet, covers the UK’s digital counterterrorism strategy, and recommends investing in a VPN.
This week, the Internet Monitor investigates the Senate’s vote to remove FCC privacy rules, Amazon’s $150 million typo, an emerging cellphone giant in India, a sex offender’s challenge to Internet restrictions, the court’s rejection of live TV on the Internet, the new IBM and Wanda partnership in China, Facebook filters for nudity and violence, blocking Pinterest in China, and the open-source LinkedIn tool Flashback.
While most Iraqi internet users often suffer from a combination of lack of access and government censorship, the Kurds in the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq often fare far better. Why is the parity in internet access so great between the two regions?
This week the Internet Monitor takes a look at a change in Reddit's policy, a new way to use Blockchain, a change in Russia's internet censorship policy, an internet blackout in Algeria, and a new technology that could potentially prevent the spread of terrorist propaganda.
In this week's #IMWeekly: a new US surveillance reform bill, hacktivism in Singapore, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Google's Uproxy, German allegations of US spying, a new direction for Iranian censorship, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: a new move for Internet governance, Brazil's new "secure" e-mail system, and more.