Internet Monitor, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, is delighted to announce the publication of “Openness and Restraint: Structure, Discourse, and Contention in Saudi Twitter,” the eighth in a series of special reports that focus on key events and new developments in Internet freedom.
This week, Internet Monitor gives you updates on Australia's virtual passport pilot program, a Russian torrent site's problems, Twitter's controversial heart, and the publication of the British Draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
Internet Monitor, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, is delighted to announce the publication of "Beyond the Wall: Mapping Twitter in China," the seventh in a series of special reports that focus on key events and new developments in Internet freedom.
This week, Internet Monitor reflects upon the closing of Google Moderator, YouTube's copyright woes in Russia, the latest partnership between the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom, Turkey's most recent Twitter ban, and the state of Snowden.
Internet Monitor intern Muira McCammon examines the tricky interplay between translation projects and language barriers on Twitter.
Wikileaks is in the midst of releasing hundreds of thousands of Saudi government documents. Internet Monitor looks at the implications of the work of independent news organizations and civil society across the region to make sense of these documents.
North Korea blocks Instagram, the Cuban government announces plans to expand internet access next month, Australia passes an anti-piracy bill, and more, in our Week in Review.
Muira McCammon talks to Nicko Margolies (Politwoops' Project Lead at the Sunlight Foundation), Arjan El Fassed (Director of the Open State Foundation), and Prof. Michael Beurskens (a Twitter researcher and intellectual property law lecturer based at the University of Bonn in Germany) about the recent Politwoops shutdown.
Chinese Communist Party recruiting online "youth civilization volunteers," new tax may price Malawians out of Internet service, South African Internet regulations called "worst new Internet censorship law," and more, in our Week in Review.
Holograms protest in Spain, Russia bans celebrity memes, Twitter suspends 10,000 ISIS-linked accounts, and more, in our Week in Review.