Week in Review: July 13, 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Jeanette Si

This week, Internet Monitor takes a look at China’s latest crackdown on VPNs, restricted Internet access in the Gaza Strip, and the July 12 day of action for net neutrality.

Internet Monitor Releases 2017 Report: The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship

Posted on June 29, 2017 by David Talbot

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: June 23, 2017

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Jeanette Si

This week, the Internet Monitor reports on possible Internet outages in Nigeria, Donald Trump’s pledge to bring Internet to rural America, Egypt’s increased blockages, and a Palestinian campaign for more Internet freedom.

Week in Review: June 15th

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Patrick Drown

This week Internet Monitor explores the most recent updates on net neutrality in the US, how Singaporean government computers are going offline, the removal of pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Twitter, and how Russian hackers are trying to learn more about Donald Trump.

Does Google owe an explanation for removing video game apps about the war in Gaza?

Posted on August 18, 2014 by mayukh sen

Google Play has removed a number of games concerning the conflict in Gaza. Many of these games, critics claim, are in extremely bad taste, making light of a war that's claimed a distressing number of lives. Google has opaquely refused to disclose the particular reasons why these games were removed. Should corporate powers like Google be the arbiters of what's morally acceptable in the public domain?

As war in Gaza draws on, Israel is hit by a barrage of cyber attacks

Posted on August 08, 2014 by claire mcnear

Israel’s internal security service has suggested that recent DDoS attacks, many of which originated in Arab states, were aimed at overloading the Israeli Internet as a whole.

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