Beginning in 1997 with the introduction of Netscape Navigator—a pivotal moment in the career of the internet—and ending with ...

Between 2016 and 2024 there were 193 internet shutdowns imposed in 41 African countries. This form of social control is a ...

Across the world, governments are tightening controls on speech, expanding surveillance and rolling back rights once thought to be secure.

A rags-to-riches tycoon, Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai is a self-styled "troublemaker" who has long been a thorn in ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: (L-R) Jason Citron, CEO of Discord, Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap, Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta are sworn-in as ...

Contrast that with how swiftly Apple and Google deplatformed Parler after the right-leaning app was accused of fomenting the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. While conservatives have ...

The keynote address from the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

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Growing threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy require education unions to chart collective strategies for their defense. At the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Academic Freedom ...

Something unsettling is happening in East Africa. The same internet that once gave us freedom, connection, and hope is now being turned into a weapon of control. When Tanzania went dark during its ...