Paris, August 26, 2024 – Internet Without Borders expresses its concern following the arrest of Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging platform Telegram, which took place on August 24, 2024, at Le Bourget airport in France. While this arrest is reportedly related to allegations of failure to moderate illegal content, particularly those related to organized
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Turn the Internet Back On in Kashmir, Organizations Ask Indian Government
Internet Without Borders joins 65 women’s rights, human rights, digital rights and feminists groups, from India, Pakistan, and the rest of the world, including Digital Rights Foundation, Media Matters for Democracy, and Netblocks, to call on the Indian Government to restore Internet access in the autonomous region of Jammu & Kashmir. Since August 4, 2019
The DRC should respect its commitments by stopping Internet shutdowns
Goma, January 21, 2018 – The blogging community of Goma, BloGoma, Internet Without Borders and the pan-African network of web activists for democracy Africtivistes condemn with the last energy the Internet shutdown in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which began this 21 January 2018 shortly before one o’clock a.m. By shutting down the Internet once
One year of #BringbackourInternet: Six Months of Internet Shutdowns for Citizens of English-speaking Cameroon!
Paris – January 18, 2018 On January 17, 2017, the Cameroonian government imposed an internet shutdown on North-west and South-west regions of the country. During a Facebook Live Chat organised to mark this one year anniversary, Internet Without Borders reminded that citizens of anglophone regions have spent more than 6 months with social media and
Cameroon: Internet freedoms and democracy activist Patrice Nganang is Free!
Internet Sans Frontières welcomes the release of Cameroonian writer and activist Patrice Nganang. This professor and author of “Temps de Chien”, which received the grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire and the prix Marguerite Yourcenar, denounced the ongoing repression in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where access to the Internet has been severely disrupted for 3
Connecting Europe to Latin America: a revolution in Internet governance ?
Brazil is about to welcome a new submarine cable linking Latin America to Europe: ELLALINK. In addition of strengthening digital inclusion on the continent and reducing access costs, this cable may offer an innovative model of governance that will protect Internet global infrastructures as common goods, thanks to the allocation of indefeasible access rights to
Repeal of Net Neutrality: What Consequences for Emerging Countries?
With a vote on December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the US telecommunications regulator, repealed the principle of net neutrality. This dangerous vote transforms the Internet into a private good at the disposal of telecommunications operators. Internet Without Borders fears the impact of this vote on emerging countries, which are inspired by the
Internet Sans Frontières Calls on the Government of Mali to Keep the Internet On
In an open letter to the Presidency of Mali on 19 June 2017, Internet Sans Frontières and 22 Malian and international organizations call on the government to keep Malian’s Internet access on in all circumstances, especially in these times of opposition to the project of constitutional amendment submitted by the Government. The open letter comes
Internet Restored In Cameroon: A Victory For Citizens, But Vigilance Remains
Paris April 21, 2017 – Internet Without Borders welcomes with relief the news on the restoration of Internet connectivity in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, ordered by the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, on April 20, 2017. Since January 17, 2017, 20 percent of the population of this country bordering