Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Remember the Stop Online Privacy and Protect IP Acts, better known as SOPA/PIPA? It was a year ago that thousands of websites ...

The bipartisan push to restrict internet freedom is gaining momentum. On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted on five bills related to online safety and AI, ...

Legislation that would make it official U.S. policy to promote a global Internet “free from government control” could restrict the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from using its authority and ...

Internet freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year globally, according to an annual report released this week. The study from Washington-based democracy watchdog organization Freedom House ...

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/politics/Clinton_Blasts_China_Some_in_U_S_Over_Internet_Censorship’; WASHINGTON–Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled ...

The new study implicates aggressive censorship efforts in some countries, while calling out the US for its "laissez-faire approach to the tech industry." Alamy Stock Photo See more of our coverage in ...

In October 2020, observing International Internet Day, I spoke about the threats to Internet freedom. A lot has happened in less than four years, and a lot has changed. But the threats did not go away ...

Democracy advocate Freedom House has published findings that indicate a growing number of governments are forcing tech businesses to comply with online censorship and surveillance. The findings were ...

Information wants to be free, or so it is said. But information isn’t of much use unless people have access to it. And to Ed Markey, the powerful chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications ...

Internet freedom around the world has fallen for the 12th year in a row, according to new research. The latest edition of Freedom House's Freedom on the Net report finds that human rights online ...