State Department launches Freedom.gov to promote secure internet access worldwide as America approaches its 250th anniversary, countering censorship.

Censorship is on the rise. Our internet freedoms are under threat as governments exercise more control over our digital ...

Affiliate Maria Xynou's latest blog post discusses the challenges of measuring Internet censorship, emerging censorship trends, and how Internet measurement powers advocacy for human rights.

Year in and year out, the idea of an open and connected internet is fading away, farther and farther. More countries are imposing some form of internet censorship, in fact, with the likes of China, ...

The Trump administration is framing its new forthcoming online portal, freedom.gov, as a bold defense of free expression. According to Reuters, the goal is to help users bypass European content ...

On July 22, the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) passed (306 votes to 67) in its third reading a law imposing fines for searching the internet for what the Kremlin classifies as ...

Internet censorship is an (in)visible threat that is increasingly becoming more pervasive around the world -- often impacting vulnerable communities the most. Today, nearly every country experiences ...

On the World Day Against Cyber Censorship on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alerted to Russian authorities’ escalating internet censorship efforts following a government block on the nation’s most ...

This article by Omar Zahirović was originally published on Balkan Diskurs, a project of the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC). An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a ...

Since 2021, the ruling military junta has severely restricted the internet and cut access to social media, digitally isolating the country. By Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur After the 7.7-magnitude ...

Digital censorship analysts argue current outage is mostly about survival and control for the country’s rulers ...