State Department launches Freedom.gov to promote secure internet access worldwide as America approaches its 250th anniversary ...

The Trump administration is framing its new forthcoming online portal, freedom.gov, as a bold defense of free expression.

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat ...

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Switzerland-based Proton tracks demand for its free virtual private network (VPN) services to detect government crackdowns and ...

On July 22, the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) passed (306 votes to 67) in its third reading a law imposing fines for searching the internet for what the Kremlin classifies as ...

Today’s young people have a lot to deal with. Pandemic interruptions, social isolation, climate change, political polarization, ever-changing technology — all on top of the typical turbulence of ...

Hollywood Dominates the Debate at Internet Censorship Hearing Having invited only one of six witness voicing opposition to the bill, the House Judiciary Committee avoided digging into the dangerous ...

24 cases of internet restrictions have been imposed in the first six months of 2025, with countless people, activists, and journalists being censored. One of the best VPNs, Surfshark, monitors cases ...

The internet's initial promise of decentralization has shifted towards centralization and conflict. China's controlled ...

A recurrent theme during the past decade of American politics has been the repeated calls for censorship of “hate speech” or “misinformation” on the internet, mostly coming from the political left.

India has tightened rules governing the use of artificial intelligence on social media to combat a flood of disinformation, ...