From a global perspective, censorship looks different depending on the country you are in. In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States of America, restrictions are only placed on torrents, but in North Korea, people are prohibited access to political media, pornography, social media, and torrents. While...
Censorship in Russia, Turkey, Iran–and of course China, has been getting worse and worse. ISPs in these countries are government controlled which means they can easily block websites for the users that use internet in the countries. Popular websites like Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, and other social networking services as...
2016 in a lot of ways, wasn’t the best year for un-restricted Internet access. We covered numerous cases in which big governments tried to silence free speech through web censorship and regulation. But how did Internet freedom in 2016 rank on a global scale? Perhaps most importantly is the...
Two-thirds of the planet currently lives under intense government internet censorship according to a report from Freedom House. That means that more than 2 billion people have limited internet access. And the worst part is, the number of restricted users keeps going up as more and more countries are tightening...
Malaysia is now becoming the new hot spot for internet censorship. Earlier this year, they blocked the entire blog website, Medium.com. This site was reportedly blocked for hosting articles from the Sarawak Report, which covered corruption in the Malaysian government. Details include stories about millions being stolen by the...
Freedom House In the fifth year in a row, global online freedom has declined. More governments utilize electronic surveillance, censor social media, and try to sabotage the very tools that protect internet freedom– like VPN and proxies. These setbacks are most notable in the Middle East. If you’ve been...
