Tag: Internet

Are autocrats winning the internet? Leading activists describe the role of big tech on the ground (Atlantic Council)

Speakers Glacier Chung Ching Kwong, Project Manager, The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Hamburg Leonid Volkov, Head, Network of Regional Headquarters for Alexei...

How Biden can make his internet freedom agenda a success (Jessica Brandt, Brookings)

As it convenes its much-anticipated Summit for Democracy this week, the Biden administration was set to launch a new Alliance for the Future of...

Iran/Internet – Under pressure, Iranian MPs postpone internet restriction bill (Al Jazeera)

Maziar Motamedi writes for Al Jazeera: Iran’s parliament has suspended its review of a highly controversial bill that a minister, citizens and businesses say will...

What role did the internet play in fomenting Cuban protests? (Brookings)

Valerie Wirtschafter writes for Brookings: When unprecedented protests erupted last week in Cuba, some observers were quick to argue that improving access to the internet had made...

(Russia) Russia and the Internet

Justin Sherman writes for Atlantic Council: The Russian government has long exerted control over the internet in Russia, but it has more aggressively pushed...

Global – How a global website outage underscores the importance of creating a more robust internet (John Villasenor, Brookings)

How a global website outage underscores the importance of creating a more robust internet (brookings.edu)

(Russia/Internet) Russian Government Moves to Assert Increasing Control Over Internet (The Jamestown Foundation)

John C. K. Daly Amidst growing political dissatisfaction, the Russian government is grappling with the apparent vulnerabilities of the country’s internet. https://jamestown.org/program/russian-government-moves-to-assert-increasing-control-over-internet/

(Internet) Shutting down the internet (Brookings)

Darrell M. West https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/02/05/shutting-down-the-internet/

(Pakistan/Internet) Pakistan to ‘review’ controversial internet censorship rules (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Rules passed in November set broad parameters for the country’s internet regulator to censor online content. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/26/pakistani-government-says-will-review-internet-censorship-rules

(Internet/Democracy) The Internet Versus Democracy (Stephen S. Roach, Project-Syndicate)

In an era of mounting social and political instability in the United States, internet-enabled connectivity is powerfully amplifying an increasingly polarized national discourse. The...

(Europe/Internet) What the European DSA and DMA proposals mean for online platforms (Aline Blankertz and Julian Jaursch, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/what-the-european-dsa-and-dma-proposals-mean-for-online-platforms/

INTERNET – The consequences of a fragmenting, less global internet (Nick Merrill and Konstantinos Komaitis, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-consequences-of-a-fragmenting-less-global-internet/