Week in Review: March 23, 2018
In this week in review, Internet Monitor covers Youtube's restrictions on videos featuring firearms and the U.S. Senate passing FOSTA.
In this week in review, Internet Monitor covers Youtube's restrictions on videos featuring firearms and the U.S. Senate passing FOSTA.
This week, IM covers protests and Internet shutdowns in Iran and the DRC , as well as Germany’s online speech law
This week, Internet Monitor covers an Internet shutdown in Ethiopia and Russia's block of Open Russia movement websites
This week, Internet Monitor takes a look at the continued investigation into the Mexican government's alleged spyware usage against private citizens, Russia's demands of Telegram, and a coalition of social media companies to combat terrorism.
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 explores Facebook's gun sale policies and how a Florida Congressman's post was deleted, automated censoring of terrorist content, how a Ukrainian writer got his start on Facebook, and the latest in censorship in Iran and Tanzania.
Queer dating apps connect members of the LGBT community in new ways, but also create new vulnerabilities and prompt censorship from some governments.
This week Internet Monitor dives into AdBlock's latest online campaign, Anonymous' campaign against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and lastly, updates in the Apple/FBI standoff.
This week, Internet Monitor looks at the ITU's newest report on global Internet access, a mobile service provider boycott in Mali, and more.