Week in Review: June 22, 2018
This week in review, Internet Monitor covers the EU’s new copyright law, Internet shutdowns in Algeria, negative effects of banning Telegram in Iran, and Belarus’ new media law.
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Week in Review: February 23, 2018
This week, Internet Monitor published its latest research bulletin, in which Berkman Klein Center affiliate Simin Kargar argues that Iranians prefer internationally hosted content and tools to the Iranian National Information Network.
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This week, Internet Monitor covers Localization Lab's new series on contributor insights, Psiphon adoption in Iran and mounting criticism of Google blocking Iranian access to Google AppEngine.
Week in Review: January 5, 2018
This week, IM covers protests and Internet shutdowns in Iran and the DRC , as well as Germany’s online speech law
Week in Review: October 27, 2017
Week in review: CAIDA releases eye-opening report on DoS attacks, FCC postpones vote on Net Neutrality, and more
Scaling the Firewall: Confessions of a Software Activist
“I never expected that making software would be activism,” said Griffin Boyce.
Boyce is a staff member at the Berkman Klein center whose interests include “urban gardening, painting, video games”—and most intensively, Internet privacy. When he’s...
Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object: Iranian Resilience in a Censored Society
Perhaps the most important trait that Iranians have developed from living in a highly-censored society, says Simin Kargar, is determination.
“One of the major consumers of [online] porn content … [is] Iranians. That is the type of content [which...
Week in Review: July 27, 2017
This week, the Internet Monitor covers the Moscow protests for Internet freedom, Iran’s increased efforts to filter social media, Verizon’s flirt with net neutrality violations, and a Global Voices study on Facebook’s Free Basics.
Internet Monitor Releases 2017 Report: The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet 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.
Week in Review: August 3, 2016
Internet Monitor breaks down a ruling on algorithms from the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Netsweeper's law suit against Citizen Lab, the arrest of a Bahraini human rights activist, a Telegram hack, and a $65 million bitcoin theft.