internet freedom

If the music industry has its way, accused pirates could be kicked off the internet permanently based on what’s often flimsy evidence of guilt.

Freedom House, a US think tank, analyzes internet freedom around the world every year, and this year’s report saw a drop in the US’s rating.

The state law only went into effect once the federal rules were officially repealed on Monday.

Google blocks a tool called Google App Engine in Iran, indirectly allowing the Iranian government to block apps that piggyback on it to skirt online censorship.

But these efforts face a steep uphill climb.

Regulators are protecting net neutrality after Telekom—which owns T-Mobile—began prioritizing content.

For net neutrality advocates, the next phase in this fight has only just begun.

The Rouhani administration seemed to be expanding internet access, but the threat of censorship remains strong.

Peter Sunde is giving Catalan independence activists free, anonymous hosting and domain names to avoid Spanish government censorship.

“Friends of recently-deceased individuals…confirmed their friends could not have posted the comments posthumously.”

An American academic has recreated “a taste” of North Korean cell phone service, “without the trip to Pyongyang.”

How one man built a unique lab whose mission is to document how the free internet is slipping into surveillance and censorship.