North Korea notoriously restricts access to the internet for its own citizens, but the full list of its websites visible to the outside world have apparently been revealed for the first time.
China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
China is confidently promoting its vision of “Internet Sovereignty.”
Every Country Has Its Own Internet Now
A patchwork of privacy laws, teen social media bans, and "digital sovereignty" pushes means the Internet you see depends entirely on where you're standing.
South Korea Sanctions Sprawling ‘Prince Group’ Alleged Criminal Empire
Seoul’s sanctions list on a Cambodia-based alleged cyber-scamming network is almost identical to the people and entities targeted recently by the U.S.
The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes | InterSecLab
This research reveals groundbreaking findings on how Geedge Networks is selling an extensive suite of next-generation digital repression tools to client governments around the world.
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Sorry, No Pornhub Access in 23 States and 3 Countries. How to Watch Anyway
Aylo sites like Pornhub are blocked across the US and in Australia, France, and the UK, in protest of age-verification laws. Here's how we got here, and how VPNs can help you connect.
Koreans in Japan - Minority Rights Group
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Real Names and Responsible Speech: The Cases of South Korea, China, and Facebook — Yale Journal of International Affairs
By David Caragliano Human psychology and market incentives make real name registration an unpalatable proposition both to netizens and to online service providers charged with implementing the policy. In time, this article argues, internet policy makers will conclude that real nam
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (Published 2016)
The social network, blocked in China since 2009, has developed software to keep posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in specific geographic areas, current and former employees said.
The Future of the Internet | Jonathan Zittrain | Talks at Google
South Korea joins growing number of countries imposing sanctions on Prince Group as probe into Cambodian scams widens
The measures are Seoul's first independent sanctions regarding transnational crime and the "largest single sanction measure in history."
The Group That Rules the Web
Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet very few of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t.
Tim Berners Lee: Thoughts On The Internet Evolution
"I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it."
The Internet is a Global Public Resource | The Mozilla Blog
One of the things that first drew me to Mozilla was this sentence from our manifesto: “The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and
