Uganda Imposes Nationwide Internet Shutdown Ahead of 2026 Election
January 15, 2026
Cut off from the digital world on the eve of the vote, Ugandans are improvising new ways to stay visible in a nation intent on going dark.
Cut off from the digital world on the eve of the vote, Ugandans are improvising new ways to stay visible in a nation intent on going dark.
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In Uganda, Bluetooth signals are becoming the modern whisper; proof that speech always finds another path.
PublicSquare’s leap into political tech turns its anti-censorship ethos into a bid for control over the campaign economy.
Proton Sheets keeps collaboration features while locking down sensitive data.
A cloud-born office suite finds new life on the desktop, blending open-source simplicity with the comfort of working offline.
The exit marks a rebuke of Europe’s tightening grip on freedom tech.
Durov’s freedom to move contrasts with the lingering case that keeps Europe’s battle over digital free speech alive.
Google’s nod to openness feels more like a gated entrance than a genuine return to Android’s freewheeling past.
Rumble’s Northern Data deal turns its free-speech mission into a full-stack tech play, fusing freedom-based ideology with infrastructure.
The bill treats privacy like a loophole, not a right, reshaping the internet into a government ID checkpoint.
What Canberra framed as compliance, Telegram saw as a summons to a fight over digital borders.
F-Droid warns that Google’s new verification rules could turn Android’s open ecosystem into a gated one controlled by corporate approval.
Google’s automated gatekeepers just reminded everyone how fragile digital independence can be when one company guards the web’s front door.
A privacy-first Android is finally stepping outside Google’s hardware shadow.
A birthday lament turns manifesto as Durov warns of a vanishing digital frontier.
Google shrugs off anonymity concerns with a smirk and a shrug, offering little more than vague reassurances.
AltStore’s next act is less about beating Apple and more about building its own internet.
A bid for independence in an online economy increasingly shaped by platform gatekeepers.
In a defiant interview, Durov warns that Europe’s push for surveillance risks normalizing the very authoritarianism it claims to fight.
Growth like this suggests privacy isn’t niche anymore, it’s mainstream.
A crackdown framed as security could erase one of the last open doors left in the Android world.
Proton Mail’s redesign swaps clutter for speed, giving privacy-first email its smoothest mobile experience yet.
Bluesky’s pivot from digital anarchy to curated civility has left its most loyal users wondering who gets to define “healthy.”
Cut off from the digital world on the eve of the vote, Ugandans are improvising new ways to stay visible in a nation intent on going dark.
By linking crypto freedom with creator earnings, Rumble turns monetization into an act of digital self-sovereignty.
In Uganda, Bluetooth signals are becoming the modern whisper; proof that speech always finds another path.
PublicSquare’s leap into political tech turns its anti-censorship ethos into a bid for control over the campaign economy.
Proton Sheets keeps collaboration features while locking down sensitive data.
A cloud-born office suite finds new life on the desktop, blending open-source simplicity with the comfort of working offline.
The exit marks a rebuke of Europe’s tightening grip on freedom tech.
Durov’s freedom to move contrasts with the lingering case that keeps Europe’s battle over digital free speech alive.
Google’s nod to openness feels more like a gated entrance than a genuine return to Android’s freewheeling past.
Rumble’s Northern Data deal turns its free-speech mission into a full-stack tech play, fusing freedom-based ideology with infrastructure.
The bill treats privacy like a loophole, not a right, reshaping the internet into a government ID checkpoint.
What Canberra framed as compliance, Telegram saw as a summons to a fight over digital borders.
F-Droid warns that Google’s new verification rules could turn Android’s open ecosystem into a gated one controlled by corporate approval.
Google’s automated gatekeepers just reminded everyone how fragile digital independence can be when one company guards the web’s front door.
A privacy-first Android is finally stepping outside Google’s hardware shadow.
A birthday lament turns manifesto as Durov warns of a vanishing digital frontier.
Google shrugs off anonymity concerns with a smirk and a shrug, offering little more than vague reassurances.
AltStore’s next act is less about beating Apple and more about building its own internet.
A bid for independence in an online economy increasingly shaped by platform gatekeepers.
In a defiant interview, Durov warns that Europe’s push for surveillance risks normalizing the very authoritarianism it claims to fight.
Growth like this suggests privacy isn’t niche anymore, it’s mainstream.
A crackdown framed as security could erase one of the last open doors left in the Android world.
Proton Mail’s redesign swaps clutter for speed, giving privacy-first email its smoothest mobile experience yet.
Bluesky’s pivot from digital anarchy to curated civility has left its most loyal users wondering who gets to define “healthy.”