India
Twitter accused of hypocrisy after contesting censorship in India
Twitter censors but doesn’t like it when government tells it to censor.
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Amazon show “Tandav” faces demands to be censored in India
Politicians are even calling the police on Amazon.
Twitter bans Sci-Hub
Publishers filed a lawsuit asking service providers to block Sci-Hub, a portal that provides free access to academic papers.
After causing Twitter outrage with recent paper, Nature Communications to review papers for “potential harm”
Outraged Twitter users are deciding the future of science publications.
Facebook India Executive Ankhi Das resigns after pushing back against Facebook censorship
A report accused Das of not applying Facebook’s political censorship policies.
Human rights group shows how pandemic has caused a severe drop in internet freedoms
Freedom House, a US government-funded non-profit, recently published a report titled “The Pandemic’s Digital Shadow,” detailing how the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing surveillance and “fueling digital repression worldwide.” The report says that several nations across the world have been using
India telecoms giant Jio blocks Twitch streams
Illegal blocking for copyright reasons seems to have been the original culprit.
Faced with censorship, Kashmir residents turn to encrypted messaging
But, even then, they’re worried their messages may still be read by authorities.
Bridgefy is considered to be a private app for protesters but is a privacy nightmare
The app has been leaking identities.
Researchers notice TikTok removed code linking the app to servers in China
Some security analysts raised suspicions.