Can Biden build the internet back better?
One year after Joe Biden became President of the United States, has he made progress on digital rights? It’s a mixed bag.
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One year after Joe Biden became President of the United States, has he made progress on digital rights? It’s a mixed bag.
Nigeria government and law enforcement will be able to complain more easily to Twitter about content.
Internet shutdowns around the world expanded 36 percent to over 30,000 hours in 2021 that cost the global economy $5.45 billion (roughly Rs. 40,300 crore), according to a report by Top10VPN. India emerged amongst the top three countries where the cost of Internet shutdowns came as the highest last year to $582.8 million (roughly Rs. 4,300 crore).
Countries in Sub-Sahara Africa lost a combined R30.88 billion ($1.93 billion) from their economies because of widespread internet shutdowns by regimes, as demonstrations and crackdowns on opposition and civic society ensued last year.
From embaye chris bond and yogita limaye reports. khurram parvez is a very well—known activist in kashmir. he runs an organisation was founded in 2004 decades it's been documenting instances of human rights violations by security forces in indian administered kashmir. the nature of the work that it does has put it at odds with notjust the current government in india, but with previous governments. with the current government, however, we have seen to have taken a far more strident approach towards kashmir. in 2019 day revoked the relative autonomy that kashmir enjoyed. thousands of people we...