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Stories about Advox from March, 2021

‘A day without internet is a day in the dark’: The Gambia's growing digital divide

Unstable, expensive internet and frequent outages impedes development

Written by Jainaba Sonko

31 March 2021

The Gambia’s missed opportunity for digital rights reform

Activists hope to overturn many draconian laws that stifle dissent

Written by Alieu Sowe

31 March 2021

Post-Magufuli, will Tanzania review its repressive online content regulations?

EPOCA 2020 content regulations are used to undermine digital rights

Written by GV Sub-Saharan Africa

30 March 2021

Pakistan bans TikTok for the second time

TikTok was banned in Pakistan for 10 days in October 2020

Written by R Umaima Ahmed

23 March 2021

Did the Ethiopian government use its COVID-19 restrictions to silence dissent?

The state of emergency restrictions were used as grounds to arrest a lawyer and a journalist last year

Written by BefeQadu Z. Hailu

23 March 2021

Chinese patriotic YouTuber apologizes after criticizing propaganda and corruption

'In our village, the forest land has not been distributed. It is so full of corruption!'

Written by CitizenNews

23 March 2021

Malaysia’s ‘fake news’ ordinance takes effect amid continuing concern over the COVID-19 state of emergency

Police granted power to search any electronic device in their investigations

Written by Mong Palatino

22 March 2021

Sierra Leone’s new cybercrime bill could turn a phone into a crime scene

The bill grants legal pretext to clamp down on dissent

Written by Alhaji Koroma

21 March 2021

Protests erupt in Bangladesh after writer arrested under the Digital Security Act dies in prison

Ahmed was arrested for criticizing the government's pandemic response on social media

Written by Samaya Anjum

19 March 2021

Kenya police turn to Twitter PR as the arrest of a blogger goes against public opinion

Kenya police use anti-cybercrime legislation to silence social media users

Written by Njeri Wangari

19 March 2021

Twitter could be fully blocked in Russia within the next month

Twitter must comply with state's takedown requests to avoid blocking

Written by Tanya Lokot

17 March 2021

In Tajikistan, online critics land behind bars as alleged ‘extremists’

Authorities equate critical social media posts with terrorism

Written by Ozoda Nurmakhmadova

17 March 2021

How India's new internet regulations will change social media, online news and video streaming

Tech giants such as Google and Twitter haven't commented on the new rules

Written by Rohith Jyothish

16 March 2021

Russian internet regulator Roskomnadzor throttles Twitter loading speeds

This is the first case of traffic throttling in Russia

Written by Tanya Lokot

10 March 2021

Cambodia’s internet gateway could intensify surveillance and censorship

The new National Internet Gateway could also affect the operations of tech companies

Written by Mong Palatino

7 March 2021

Sudan's revised cybercrime law falls short on its promise

Vague terms enable government institutions to violate fundamental freedoms

Written by Khattab Hamad

4 March 2021

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