A Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) Report has blamed the slow pace of Internet growth in Africa on some activities embarked upon by the various governments. The report, with focus on digital rights in Africa, titled: “Choking The Pipe: How Governments Hurt Internet Freedom On A Continent That Needs More Access,” identified among others, some policy inconsistencies …
The battle for a disputed .Africa top level domain appears to gain new insights as the court process continues. The court process which has taken the whole of 2016 and is set to be ruled upon in 2017 did not sit well with certain people who through a surprising proposal to the ITU’s World Telecommunication …
A sweeping new surveillance regime is to be enshrined in UK law in the coming weeks, after the Investigatory Powers Bill passed through the House of Lords yesterday. All that’s now required for the bill to become the Investigatory Powers Act is the Queen’s approval, a formality known as royal assent. The new law, dubbed …
For the second consecutive year, China has been found to be the worst abuser of Internet freedom in the world, according to a report released by human rights watchdog Freedom House. In the 2016 Freedom on the Net survey report released Monday, the watchdog said the Chinese government’s crackdown on free expression under President Xi …
As reported by Reuters.com Access to social media sites Twitter and Whatsapp was blocked in Turkey on Friday, an internet monitoring group said, following the detentions of 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers in the mainly Kurdish southeast overnight. Access was being blocked by throttling, an expert from the monitoring group Turkey Blocks said, a method of slowing …
Rick Manning has released a statement on behalf of Americans for Limited Government that National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) performed no antitrust analysis even as it proceeded with the process to create an independent body to take over IANA oversight responsibilities that will cede the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet …
Twenty-five advocacy groups that comprise TechFreedom, Heritage Action for America and Taxpayers Protection Alliance have writen a letter demanding that the Commerce Department to hold off on plans to transition its control over the body that governs internet domain names ICANN. But the NTIA shows no signs of halting plans to end its oversight of …
In a last ditch effort to prevent the IANA transition, the GOP has included in its Republican Platform for 2016 [PDF] which was formally approved during the party’s national convention in Cleveland a policy position on “Protecting Internet Freedom.” The position affirms the effort to stop the oversight handover to a new body, it reads: …
The Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of regulating the internet is likely illegal, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. “The Obama administration does not have the authorization from Congress,” Cruz said Thursday, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on internet freedom. “And yet they are endeavoring to give away this valuable, critical property. …
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Va.) sent a letter to the Commerce Department, asking a series of pointed questions. The letter comes as the administration nears its planned date to give up its oversight of the internet domain name system, which helps pair up long strings of …