Tag: Internet Governance

The Declaration for the Future of the Internet makes a lot of big promises — Will States follow through on their commitments?

The European Union’s Digital Services Act is no mean feat, but it is striking that EU Member States establishing their own national solutions would prove to be the biggest obstacle.

Oman has blocked the social media audio chat platform Clubhouse on the grounds of not being licensed to operate. Civil society is denouncing this arbitrary measure as part of a pattern of repression in Oman.

Here’s where you find Access Now staff at the Internet Governance Forum 2020, which focuses on strategies for using the internet to increase human resilience and solidarity.

The government has replaced bad regulations with new ones that enable the same kind of harmful internet censorship in Tanzania. Not only does the new law stifle free expression, it allows the government to profit from ratcheting up online censorship and control.

In a U.N. meeting on protecting future generations in the digital era, Steele urged global stakeholders to cease exploitative data collection, renew the commitment to bring everyone meaningfully online, and stop internet shutdowns and unlawful censorship.

Amplifying its clampdown on freedom of expression online, the Egyptian government is on a campaign to arrest and prosecute women influencers on the emerging social media platform TikTok.

Access Now’s latest report examines the power — and fragility — of our rights to peaceful assembly and association in the digital era.