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Arrest of journalist after Maryam Nawaz’s Slip of Tongue exposes Media Censorship in Punjab
15 Feb 2026 11:13 GMT
ISLAMABAD – A minor slip of tongue by Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz during rally in Mianwali ignited new controversy across social media, as PTI trolls had a field day and it all ended with arrest of a journalist.
During her Thursday speech, CM said: …
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Internet regulation: What model is New Zealand really choosing? - David Harvey
15 Feb 2026 02:06 GMT
… so crude. Nor is the internet here unregulated. The Classification … , leading users to self-censor and narrowing the range of … While this approach avoids direct censorship of individual posts, it embeds … about whether that is the internet – or the democracy – …
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Iran’s Internet Goes Dark as US Agencies Spar on VPN Funding
14 Feb 2026 22:32 GMT
… their government’s strict internet censors, amid a surge in … the continuous operation of internet freedom programming carried out … to enable secure, uncensored internet usage, Cunningham argues that … help Iranians access the internet when the regime has …
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Washington’s Secret Internet Operation Inside Iran Revealed
13 Feb 2026 03:52 GMT
… thousands of Starlink satellite internet terminals into Iran following … redirect funding from other internet-freedom programs toward … such systems to bypass censorship, share information, and … digital resistance.
Some internet-freedom advocates argued that …
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Putin accused of ‘total censorship’ after blocking WhatsApp
12 Feb 2026 21:31 GMT
Internet freedom activists have accused Russia of moving towards “total censorship” by restricting … sense the Iranian experience with internet shutdowns has inspired our security … activist and director of the Internet Protection Society, an exiled Russian …
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Wyden remains in support of Section 230, the internet company protection law he authored 31 years ago
12 Feb 2026 18:40 GMT
… regulator of speech on the internet.
“I have two small … and set up a government censorship army, but to use these … individuals who post on the internet are responsible for that content … with me.”
Wyden sees the internet as a democratizer, allowing people …
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Russia extends firewall to limits amid censorship of Telegram, WhatsApp, and YouTube
12 Feb 2026 14:18 GMT
… employed by the state to censor internet for its citizens.
Russia … of the so-called “sovereign internet” law.
Under the legislation, … devices are deployed at internet service providers to allow them … to throttle or block internet traffic to targeted platforms. …
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Iran weighs tighter internet controls following shutdown
12 Feb 2026 14:02 GMT
… surveillance as it turns the internet back on after a recent … , Iran’s internet was a patchily censored version of the global web. But …
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How to cover a country cut out from the Internet? The battle to report on Iran from exile
12 Feb 2026 13:17 GMT
… regime has implemented an internet blackout. The first full … has been strengthening their internet infrastructure in the past … and the internet to further isolate people and censor them.”
… sidelined.
“These kinds of internet shutdowns stop the information …
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Russia Moves to Fully Block WhatsApp as Internet Controls Tighten
12 Feb 2026 13:04 GMT
… Russian government has steadily expanded censorship measures, blocking major social media … a broader, methodical tightening of internet controls under President Vladimir Putin … create a tightly controlled domestic internet ecosystem, often referred to as …