Egypt, under fire for muzzling freedom of expression, has blocked access to around 60 news websites and service providers since the end of May, rights groups and media figures said Monday. Back in May, around 20 websites based in Qatar and in Egypt were made inaccessible, including the Qatar’s Al-Jazeera and the independent Egyptian news … Read more
Turkey will not allow access to Wikipedia inside the country until rulings ordering the online encyclopedia to remove content that Ankara deems to be false are implemented, the head of the country’s communications agency said Wednesday. Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) implemented the ban on wikipedia.org on Saturday as an “administrative measure” and … Read more
People in the Chinese megacity Chongqing could be fined for using VPNs to jump over the country’s “Great Firewall” that blocks access to forbidden websites from Google to Facebook. The punishment would be meted out to people using virtual private networks to access banned sites for commercial purposes, but Amnesty International said the wording was … Read more
Beijing said Thursday it will push a “China solution” to global cyber governance after releasing its first strategy paper outlining a vision of the web where individual countries control the information that flows across their borders. The roll out is part of an effort by Beijing to play a more active role in shaping the … Read more