Brazil is close to passing the world's first internet bill of rights. The Marco Civil da Internet aims to guarantee basic protections for internet users. In development since 2009, the civil regulatory framework was created through public...
Index joins civil society groups in voicing concerns about proposals made by the International Telecommunication Union that would threaten the openness of the internet
Index on Censorship joins rights groups calling on British Prime Minister David Cameron to resist plans for internet blocking
MAGAZINE Academic freedom is in danger. Thomas Docherty explains how cuts are damaging universities across the UK
Academics worldwide face economic and political attacks that restrict their freedom to challenge convention, says Jo Glanville
Vladimir Putin says [Ru] he doesn’t use the internet very much. But he has definitely recognised its power. The biggest protest rallies in post-Soviet Russia, against Putin and his party United Russia, were organised online. No wonder that...
Marta Cooper: Who controls the internet?
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
Sukumar Muralidharan: Delhi’s censorship may only worsen sectarian violence
The world’s largest democracy is all too willing to censor the web, says Marta Cooper
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