Tag: Censorship
Free expression at scale: a human rights guide to content moderation
Access Now releases preliminary recommendations for content moderation and Facebook’s planned oversight board.
UPR review: Access Now and ARTICLE 19 highlight threats to digital rights in Iran
For Iran’s third review, Access Now and ARTICLE 19 submitted documentation of the threats to access to information, data protection, and freedom of expression.
Sri Lanka: shutting down social media to fight rumors hurts victims
Cutting communications channels can block the emergency and rescue services that keep people alive.
Australia’s plans for internet regulation: aimed at terrorism, but harming human rights
Writing sound policy to address challenges linked to online speech (even “terrorist” content) requires a carefully considered, measured, and proportionate approach.
Venezuelan journalist Luis Carlos Díaz facing arbitrary detention
Luis Carlos Díaz, a journalist and activist well known throughout Venezuela and the global human rights community, was detained by SEBIN intelligence officers yesterday evening on his way home from work at Union Radio.
Philippine government must drop cyber libel charges against Maria Ressa
Cybercrime provisions must not be deployed to silence journalists and those who perform the vital role of uncovering facts.
Against the Constitutional Law of Cyberspace bill of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The undersigned organizations and citizens express our concern about the Constitutional Law of Cyberspace bill of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a document that has been leaked to the media. According to the information received, the bill could be approved this month, January 2019, by the Constituent National Assembly (ANC).
#KeepItOn: Joint letter on keeping the internet open and secure in Zimbabwe
Joint letter from #KeepItOn coalition members urging Zimbabwe to end the internet shutdown.
السودان: احتجاجات ضد غلاء المعيشة وتعتيم السلطّات بقطع الإنترنت
Open letter: response to Google on Project Dragonfly, China, and human rights
Access Now joins a global coalition calling on Google to drop development of censored search services in China.