Facebook's news blockade in Australia shows how tech giants are swallowing the web
The internet of 2021 is not the open public sphere that early visionaries had imagined.
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The internet of 2021 is not the open public sphere that early visionaries had imagined.
California can enforce its landmark net neutrality law after a federal judge ruled Tuesday against a group of broadband providers seeking to block it.
Cambodia’s Internet Clampdown: A ‘Great Firewall’, or No Worse than the West? width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 share Government spokesperson “[Is there] any country which does not control the Internet? The USA and England have it … so Cambodia made this sub-decree by learning from other countries.” Misleading On February 16, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a sub-decree to set up a National Internet Gateway (NIG). The Cambodian government initially proposed the NIG in July 2020 with the stated goal of controlling and monitoring online traffic. The...
None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward with...
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. PIR Launches New Institute to Combat DNS Abuse February 17, 2021 GMT RESTON, Va., Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry, the People behind .ORG, today launched the DNS Abuse Institute as part of its ongoing efforts to protect Internet users from the threat of DNS Abuse such as malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam. The Institute will bring together leaders in the anti-abuse space to fund research, publish recommended practices, share data, and provide tools to identify and rep...