The Russian parliament’s upper house has quickly approved a bill that punishes online searches for information officially ...

It creates real problems for tens of millions of people,” stated liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin outside the State Duma ...

Since invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has made it increasingly challenging for Russians to access foreign websites, social ...

So far in 2025, 24 internet restrictions have been recorded in 10 countries/territories. The first six months of 2024 saw 20 ...

“The European Union has wielded its Digital Services Act (DSA) to restrict the speech not just of Europeans but especially of Americans and other English-speakers,” John Rosenthal, an analyst of ...

It has taken six months and the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians but now, at last, Donald Trump may have grasped the truth ...

Russia, China, and North Korea have faced extensive scrutiny for targeting critics on U.S. soil. It’s time India faced ...

A Legacy of State Violence Russia’s atrocities are not historical accidents — they are patterns of statecraft. In the Soviet Union, the gulag system imprisoned millions for “counter-revolutionary” ...

Russia has continued to make censorship requests to Google, however, and last did so in the period ending June 2024, the most recent data available.

As Mark Zuckerberg rolls out an “anti-censorship” policy for all Meta subsidiaries, we must be careful to not repeat Vladimir Putin’s playbook.

Google also restricted access to YouTube videos and Google Docs containing the names of recommended candidates. Increasing compliance by foreign tech companies with Russian authorities’ demands is ...

To release the film in Russia, the production team of “The Master and Margarita” marketed it as a “love story” and removed Lockshin’s name from the release. “They told the government… we can’t not ...