As social media platforms around the world surrender to state diktats, what can users do?

We need to take power in our own hands and demand pro-humanity technology from all players.

Mishi Choudhary

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Eben Moglen

· Mar 11, 2023 · 09:00 am

Wikipedia ban in Pakistan lifted two days after it was blocked for blasphemous content

The Wikimedia Foundation had said that it does not make decisions about what content is featured on the website.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 07, 2023 · 01:10 pm

Explained: What emergency powers has India used to block links of BBC’s Gujarat riots documentary?

The Centre exercised a provision under the controversial Information Technology Rules, 2021, to issue takedown orders to YouTube and Twitter.

Nachiket Deuskar

· Jan 23, 2023 · 06:30 am

Jammu and Kashmir recorded highest internet shutdowns in the world last year, says study

Surfshark, a VPN service provider, said that India, Russia and Iran stood out among other countries for their ‘high-profile internet censorship events’ in 2022.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 19, 2023 · 12:25 pm

Not just social media, the new IT Act amendment will also affect news websites. Here’s how

Three-member panels appointed by the government will have the power to decide if a platform’s decision to take down a user’s post was valid.

Karnika Kohli

· Nov 03, 2022 · 09:00 am

What will happen if Russia cuts itself off from the internet?

With mounting pressure from the West, Moscow may create its own version of the ‘great firewall of China’.

Mohiuddin Ahmed, The Conversation

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Paul Haskell-Dowland, The Conversation

· Mar 11, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Digital authoritarianism: Kazakhstan is the latest country to use internet shutdown as a weapon

The number of internet shutdowns is on the rise, from 56 times in 2016 to at least 155 times in 29 countries in 2020.

Margaret Hu, The Conversation

· Jan 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm

How the Modi government’s new IT rules jeopardise the right to privacy and free speech

The Centre’s recent attempts to provide clarification over the notification fail to allay concerns raised by civil society, tech companies and internet users.

Namrata Maheshwari

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Ria Singh Sawhney

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Akhil Thomas

· Nov 22, 2021 · 07:30 am

How social media platforms are silencing Palestinian voices

Facebook acknowledged it had inaccurately labelled certain words commonly used by Palestinians online as incitement to violence.

Kelly Lewis, The Conversation

· May 28, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Modi government’s new IT rules raise the question: Is India becoming China?

The rules are not an attack on American big tech – they are an attack on the internet, say experts.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· May 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm

How Facebook’s No 2 executive silenced an enemy of Turkey to protect the tech giant’s business

Newly disclosed emails amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign show the platform’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg agreed to block a Kurdish group’s page.

Jack Gillum, ProPublica

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Justin Elliott, ProPublica

· Feb 27, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Internet shutdowns don’t just hinder some apps – they undermine the very idea of democracy

The disputes about internet shutdowns raise basic questions about the future of human life itself.

Eben Moglen

· Feb 02, 2021 · 07:30 am