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This year, we have seen an array of different ways governments around the world have tried to alter basic security on the web for users. Much of this was attempted through legislation, direct network interference, or as a request directly from a government to internet governance authorities. On the...

Iranian authorities deploy new tactics to crack down on free expression and access to information as protests continue across the country.

As Qatar hosts the World Cup this year, a new series looks into the state of the internet and digital surveillance there.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces laid siege to Kherson in Ukraine in March, they blocked Ukrainians’ access to independent news and censored web traffic

The coup in Myanmar is both physical and digital — and shutdowns are being abused by the Myanmar military to enforce silence.

Access to hundreds of websites are blocked in Egypt, placing journalists in a virtual jail. To draw attention to this censorship, and to circumvent it, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is making its own website accessible again in Egypt today, exactly one year after it was first blocked there.

For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.

As governments find more effective ways to carry out internet shutdowns, citizens and democracies need more effective ways to combat them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) holds an iPhone as his spokesman Dmitry Peskov (R) looks on prior to a bilateral meeting with Philippines

On December 13, 2020, the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC) issued a ruling to block South Korea’s access to womenonweb.kr, Women on Web’s website that provides information on women’s health, sexual and reproductive rights, medical abortion, and thereby helps women to obtain safe, timely and affordable abortion care, charging that the website facilitates sale of unprescribed drugs by non-pharmacists.