Add to ORKGOver the past two years, we have undertaken several studies at the Berkman Center designed to better understand the control of the Internet in less open societies. During the years we've been engaged in this research, we have seen many incidents that have highlighted the continuing role of the Internet as a battleground for political control, including partial or total Internet shutdowns in China, Iran, Egypt, Libya, and Syria; many hundreds of documented DDoS, hacking, and other cyber attacks against political sites; continued growth in the number of countries that filter the Internet; and dozens of well documented cases of on- and offline persecution of online dissidents. The energy dedicated to these battles for control of the Internet o...
Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media b...
In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only ...
Ever since the early days of the Internet the “freedom of the Internet” has been a subject for debat...
The Internet has, within a period of twenty years, become the primary medium of information exchang...
The Internet has proved its capacity to defy the nation-states’ traditional borders. Facing this cir...
Digital communication has become a more perilous activity, particularly for activists, political dis...
Over the last thirty years, the Internet generally and the World Wide Web in particular have gone fr...
The effect of the digital revolution on citizens’ ability to voice dissatisfaction with their govern...
Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which sur...
Social, economic, and technological developments are widely accepted as powerful forces that affect ...
A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and sur...
It is widely believed that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. But po...
Over the last decade, the Internet has transformed how information can be made available-it is now u...
It is widely believed that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. But po...
It was long assumed that the Internet would bring about greater opportunities for free expression th...
Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media b...
In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only ...
Ever since the early days of the Internet the “freedom of the Internet” has been a subject for debat...
The Internet has, within a period of twenty years, become the primary medium of information exchang...
The Internet has proved its capacity to defy the nation-states’ traditional borders. Facing this cir...
Digital communication has become a more perilous activity, particularly for activists, political dis...
Over the last thirty years, the Internet generally and the World Wide Web in particular have gone fr...
The effect of the digital revolution on citizens’ ability to voice dissatisfaction with their govern...
Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which sur...
Social, economic, and technological developments are widely accepted as powerful forces that affect ...
A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and sur...
It is widely believed that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. But po...
Over the last decade, the Internet has transformed how information can be made available-it is now u...
It is widely believed that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. But po...
It was long assumed that the Internet would bring about greater opportunities for free expression th...
Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media b...
In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only ...
Ever since the early days of the Internet the “freedom of the Internet” has been a subject for debat...