Tag: Twitter
As Tanzania votes, government forces telecom companies to escalate censorship
Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition denounce the Tanzania government’s repressive measures to stifle fundamental rights and freedoms, and call on telecommunication service providers to keep people online in the build up to tomorrow’s presidential elections.
Tell U.S. FCC: Don’t help Trump spread disinformation
Disinformation has no place in a democracy. Tell the FCC to reject President Trump’s effort to bully his fact-checkers and fundamentally change Section 230 — the legal backbone of the internet.
Belarus is reportedly blocking and throttling Twitter in reaction to protests
Facebook deactivates accounts of Tunisian political bloggers and activists
Trump’s executive order may lead to stricter social media rules in India
Twitter corrects Trump’s inaccurate ballot tweet, so he retaliates with legally nonsensical executive order
Access Now lambasts President Trump’s executive order to undermine Section 230 and defends Twitter’s decision to fact-check the president’s erroneous tweet.
#KeepItOn: Internet shutdowns put lives at risk during COVID-19
There is no excuse for internet shutdowns during a global pandemic, but governments keep ordering them. Join the #KeepItOn coalition in calling for an end to shutdowns globally.
Civil society to WHO: let’s end government-ordered internet shutdowns
Today the #KeepItOn coalition sent an open letter to the Deputy Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, calling on her to urge states to end the blatant and arbitrary internet shutdowns that are ongoing during COVID-19.
Twitter Puts its Support Behind Campaign to End Government-Implemented Internet Shutdowns
Stepping up to the challenge: which companies are responding on digital rights?
Only 10 of the 24 companies publicly responded to Access Now’s open letters asking for improvement in one key area based on each company’s evaluation results of the Ranking Digital Rights Index.