Internet giant steps into realm of politics with debate on freedom of speech.

David Smith in Athens at the UN conference on the internet, where The Observer's campaign was the centre of attention.

Free access to information online is a vital component of democratic societies. However, something that is take for granted in this country is by no means possible everywhere. Given this, in a recent ...

More people than ever are suffering at the hands of internet censorship and the best VPNs are some of the most important tools used in the fightback. 4.8 billion people were affected by internet ...

The rapid development of AI has triggered controversy surrounding copyright and big data in most parts of the world. In China, the trend of automated censorship is more worrisome, as it enables the ...

Researchers from the censorship monitoring platform Great Firewall Report (GFW Report) published an investigation last week that “sounds the alarm” about the emergence of regional online censorship in ...

The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of censorship-related jobs in China between 2015 and 2022. But growing evidence also shows that human-powered ...

On July 15, China passed new legislation known as the National Network Identity Authentication, also called Internet ID. Under this new law, Chinese citizens would voluntarily enroll via a government ...

China has blocked the website of one of Australia's biggest news networks, adding to the list of international media groups prevented from reaching internet users in the world's most populous country.