News emerged from Morocco last week that 18-year-old Walid Bahomane was sent to a juvenile facility to await trial on charges of “defaming Morocco's sacred values” for a Facebook post about the country's monarch. There is now news that yet another young Moroccan is in trouble for online comments...

Update: The hearing has concluded and the verdict will be read out on April 30th.
The trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of one of Thailand’s most popular alternative news sites who was arrested in October 2010 continues on Tuesday, 14 February following a 5-month recess. Jiew,...

This week has seen a marked increase in the blocking and filtering of certain kinds of Internet traffic in Iran. The Iranian government has not openly acknowledged these new measures, but they are widely thought to be preliminary steps towards a nation-wide Halal Internet that would cut off a...

While copyright owners claim that they need anti-circumvention laws to address copyright infringement, twelve years’ experience with the U.S. DMCA provisions demonstrates that overbroad digital locks laws can wreak havoc on lawful, non copyright-infringing activities, stifle free speech and scientific research, and harm innovation and competition. The issue is that...

In countries across the world, content copyright industries have been lobbying for laws that would break the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement. Such regulations could terminate user access to the Internet on an allegation of copyright infringement, enact website blocking powers that would make parts of the global...