A report from Freedom House released on Wednesday revealed that global internet freedom has declined for the 14th consecutive year. The report cites an increase in government censorship and election ...

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Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek ...

Freedom House’s latest assessment of Internet freedom highlights an upside-down trend among states in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Among those regional states deemed either “free” or “partly free,” ...

Kenya scored 52 in a 171-country internet freedom study. Telegram shutdowns and protest blackouts drove the decline.

In 2025, India linked its near-universal population register with the National Intelligence Grid, making citizens’ demographic and familial data routinely searchable by security agencies.

Does A Crackdown On Sex Trafficking Threaten The Future Of The Internet? A landmark piece of legislation may be amended to help curb sex trafficking, but tech companies argue that it threatens online ...