Marta Cooper: Who controls the internet?
Who controls the internet?
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CATEGORY: Campaigns
Web 2.0: Don’t shoot the messenger
Search engines and social networking sites are at the heart of Web 2.0. To unreasonably threaten them with liability for user content misses the point, says
Marta Cooper
Indian government restricts web and text services after clashes
Sukumar Muralidharan: Delhi’s censorship may only worsen sectarian violence
India’s face-off with Internet freedom
The world’s largest democracy is all too willing to censor the web, says Marta Cooper
PAST EVENT: 5 Sept: Index at the Picturehouse – a preview of Anna Karenina followed by a Q&A with Tom Stoppard and Paul Webster
5 Sept: Index at the Picturehouse – a preview of Anna Karenina + live Q&A with Sir Tom Stoppard
India’s face-off with internet freedom
Although only 10 per cent of India's population is online, a divisive national debate over internet freedom has implications for the country's economic and political growth. In December 2011 journalist Vinay Rai filed a complaint under sections 200...
The strange cyber-utopianism of the internet censor
Padraig Reidy: The strange cyber-utopianism of the internet censor
The mechanics of China’s internet censorship
With 500 million internet users, how does China censor the web? Dinah Gardner explains the Communist Party’s sophisticated online controls
UAE: Joint open letter to William Hague calling for release of activists
Since March, Emirati authorities have arrested over 50 activists and human rights defenders in a widespread crackdown on dissent. Index joins a group of international rights groups in calling on UK Foreign Minister William Hague and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to push for the prisoners’ release
The curious case of Belarus’s bears that weren’t there
A young Belarusian journalist has been arrested and detained – for taking photographs of teddy bears that the government denies even exist.
Andrei Aliaksandru reports
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship