The Battle for Free Access Heats Up
The internet empowers everyone, including the censor. Last summer three events happened in quick succession that provide a bird’s-eye view of government efforts across the globe to control the flow of information on the internet.
Thirty-nine-year-old Pavel Durov, the chairman of Telegram, a Facebook competitor, was arrested at an airport outside of Paris and charged with twelve crimes. The charges relate to his failure to remove illicit content, but the French government also appears to want a back door into Telegram, which has 900 million active users.
On August 26, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the House Judiciary Committee that the U.S. administration (under both Trump and Biden) had pressured his...
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