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  1. Access Denied
    The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
  2. Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. It’s reducing our attention span, and it’s ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
  3. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
  4. "ChinaLeaks" Stories Censored in Mainland China
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Chinese authorities move aggressively to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elites.
  5. Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
    Regulatory Capture at the FCC

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
  6. easyDNS Technologies Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Enemies of the Internet 2013
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance
  8. False Freedom
    Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
  9. From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
  10. GreatFire.org
    Resource Type: Website
    GreatFire.org brings transparency to the Great Firewall of China. We have monitored blocked websites and keywords since 2011.
  11. The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
    A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
  12. Internet 'kill switch' easy target in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  13. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
  14. Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
  15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  16. Ours to Hack and To Own
    The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
  17. Their Internet or Ours?
    Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  18. Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
  19. We Must Keep the Internet Free and Open. EFF, Tech Giants, Startups and Internet Users Tell FCC: Don’t Sell Out Net Neutrality To Appease ISPs
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition of user advocacy groups and major technology companies and organizations joined forces to protest the FCC’s plan to toss out net neutrality rules that preserve Internet freedom.
  20. The WikiLeaks wake up call
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Will a backlash against the WikiLeaks phenomenon have significant implications for the future of the Internet?

Experts on Internet Access in the Sources Directory

  1. International Telecommunication Union

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