The 50-page report, “Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia,” documents the impact of the government’s increasing technological capacities and control over the internet infrastructure. Human Rights Watch found that this allows the authorities to carry out more widespread and nontransparent blocking and throttling of unwanted websites and censorship circumvention tools, as well as internet disruptions and shutdowns under the pretext of ensuring public safety and national security.
This report documents internet censorship in Bangladesh between July to August 2024 student-led uprising.
In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems, as well as several with unexplained causes.
A new form of state-level internet filtering that restricts data flow is disrupting access to large portions of the global web for Russian citizens. Cloudflare, the world leader in...
This report documents the blocking of Telegram in Kenya during the 2023 and 2024 KCSE exams based on OONI network measurement data. This report supported a petition filed at the High Court of Kenya in May 2025, and OONI data is used as as evidence in support of this landmark public interest case.
Beirut, May 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Jordanian authorities to lift Wednesday’s ban on a dozen online news outlets for “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan,” following the publication of allegations that the government unfairly profited from aid to Gaza. “The Jordanian Media Commission’s decision to block 12 media websites is deeply alarming,”...
Seven organizations have today filed a landmark public interest case challenging the unlawful disruption of internet access in Kenya. The organizations are: The International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section (ICJ Kenya), The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), Katiba Institute, The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA). After the case was filed, High Court Justice Bahati Mwamuye issued orders stopping all […]
The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a case over whether age verification for online porn sites is constitutional.
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books.
Russia’s media censor, Roskomnadzor, has blocked thousands of local websites that use an encryption feature from the U.S. company Cloudflare, designed to improve privacy and security for internet users.