Filter
74
Featured
Free Access
67
Key Guidance
1
Top Insights
1
Topics
Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
13
Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
9
Freedom of Expression
5
Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
4
Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
4
Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
3
Digital Rights
3
Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
3
Media Freedom, Press Freedom
3
Facebook
3
Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
3
Election Campaigns: Social Media
3
Election Campaigns
2
Press Freedom & Communication Rights Violations
2
Algorithms & Big Data
2
Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
2
Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
2
Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
2
Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
2
Uyghurs, Uighurs
2
Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
2
Law Enforcement, Litigations, Legal Practice, Case Law, Jurisdiction
2
Telecommunication Infrastructure
2
Access to Media & Information
1
Access to Internet & Digital Communications
1
Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
1
Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
1
Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
1
Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
1
Campaigning: Experiences
1
Film Industries
1
Communication Rights
1
Intellectual Property
1
Censorship
1
Countering Press Freedom Violations by Legal Actions
1
Violence Against Journalists & Media Personnel
1
Crisis Communication
1
Government Communication Strategies
1
Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
1
Community Radios
1
Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
1
Digital Inclusion
1
Google
1
Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
1
WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
1
Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
1
LGBT & Communication / Media
1
Documenting Human Rights Violations
1
Digital Economies & Markets
1
Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
1
Female Journalists & Media Workers
1
Feminism & Communication
1
Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
1
Decolonial & Non-Western Approaches
1
Investigative Journalism
1
Journalism Education & Training
1
Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
1
Kiswahili
1
Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
1
Human Rights
1
Human Rights Protection
1
Human Rights Violations
1
People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
1
Security
1
National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
1
Rohingya
1
Networks & Networking
1
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
1
Telecommunication Industries & Markets
1
Language
Document type
Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Methods applied
Journals
Output Type
Simplified Guide on Internet Shutdown
Dar es Salaam: ZAINA Foundation (2022), 19 pp.
"This is the proactive simplified internet shutdown guide for human rights defenders in Sub Saharan Africa. The internet is the key infrastructure in democracy. Access to the internet and other technological communication tools is vital during this period of human rights in the digital era. This gui
...
Internet Shutdowns and Human Rights: Submission in Response to the Call for Comments by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as Input for the Report on Internet Shutdowns and Human Rights to the Fiftieth Session of the Human Rights Council in June 2022
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 29 pp.
"Temporary internet disruptions and shutdowns pose serious challenges to the exercise of a wide range of rights and therefore cannot be justified under any pretext, whether these relate to preservation of national security, safeguarding the public order, or countering disinformation, among others. A
...
Government Internet Shutdowns Are Changing: How Should Citizens and Democracies Respond?
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2022), 45 pp.
"The most promising strategies to help citizens circumvent internet shutdowns do not involve deploying satellite internet devices or floating balloons. Instead, simpler solutions, such as encouraging citizens to download anticensorship apps or software ahead of time, are much more useful. But they d
...
Internet Shutdowns: Trends, Causes, Legal Implications and Impacts on a Range of Human Rights
United Nations (2022), 17 pp.
"In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/16, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of trends in Internet shutdowns. It contains an analysis of their causes and the legal implications and the impact on human ri
...
Information Controls and Internet Shutdowns in African Elections
Journal of African Elections, volume 21, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-22
"Internet shutdowns in Africa are becoming increasingly widespread, particularly when governments face competitive or contentious elections. They have also come to symbolise a widening fracture between competing conceptions of the global Internet and its regulation. Governments in Africa are justify
...
Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. India Country Report
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 8 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in India: rise of government pressure and fear towards it, the growth of digital users, journalists´ lives lost during the pandemic, intimidation and harassment of the journalists across the country, the
...
Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan
Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2022), pp. 3917-3938
"This article provides an overview of Internet shutdowns in Pakistan, which have become an increasingly common phenomenon, with 41 occurring between 2012 and 2017. It argues that to understand how shutdowns became normalized in Pakistan, it is necessary to look at the specific dynamics of how the sh
...
Digital Rights at the UNHRC 49 and Beyond
Access Now (2022), 10 pp.
"Digital rights violations enable and escalate offline violence, deepening humanitarian crises. The calculated attacks targeting digital systems – essential to people’s safety and wellbeing – are unacceptable. At this critical juncture in history, when human rights violations are rampant from
...
Let the Net Work: Internet Shutdowns in India 2022
New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.
"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re
...
Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Digital Repression on the “New Silk Road”
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 24 pp.
"In January 2022, Kazakhstan’s government shut down internet access for several days while enacting a violent crackdown on initially peaceful protests triggered by hikes in fuel prices. This policy brief examines Kazakhstan’s internet and media landscape, the (re)actions of civil society and the
...
A Taxonomy of Internet Shutdowns: The Technologies Behind Network Interference
Key Guidance
Access Now (2022), 45 pp.
"In this paper, we outline each of the various technical mechanisms for implementing a shutdown, and the options for mitigating each type. Our hope is that technologists and civil society groups working to end shutdowns will find this a useful technical resource to understand, prepare for, circumven
...
Digitalisation and Civic Space: Chances and Challenges
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.
"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s
...
Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft. Freiheitsrechte unter Druck: Schwerpunkt Digitalisierung
München; Berlin: oekom Verlag; Brot für die Welt (2022), 86 pp.
"Vielfaltig, unzensiert, demokratiefördernd - das ist das Internet, hofften viele Menschen lange. Doch diese Attribute passen aus heutiger Sicht nicht - oder nur teilweise. Denn die großen digitalen Plattformen und das World Wide Web sind beides: Medien der Freiheit und der Kontrolle. Sie helfen d
...
The Return of Digital Authoritarianism: Internet Shutdowns in 2021
Top Insights
Access Now; KeepItOn (2022), 32 pp.
"With a gradual return to normalcy following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a dramatic resurgence of internet shutdowns in 2021. During this year, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented at least 182 internet shutdown incidents around the world in 34 countries, as com
...
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2021), xv, 423 pp.
"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Update
...
Myanmar: Dismantling Dissent. Crackdowns on Internet Freedoms
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 27 pp.
"The OPTIMA workflow is a compilation of new and existing resources, guides, methodologies, and more to assist individuals and activists before, during and after an Internet shutdown. The following repository is organized into four categories:
ADVOCACY RESOURCES. Designing effective advocacy campaig
...
