February 2021 WILMap Updates

In the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Verge invited Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, to join the

Platform regulation has a real shot at passage this cycle of the U.S. Congress. After a year of “unserious, undemocratic and unconstitutional” proposals to reform Section 230 of the Communications

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico vowed to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts

Section 230 became a favorite punching bag of President Trump’s in the past year. But the law’s days may be numbered even though Joe Biden will be president. Democrats also

Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on

Users of major mobile carriers can no longer access a service that detailed the personal information of police officers, a possible sign that the city is turning to tactics used

Google opened a centre to tackle harmful online content, in a move also designed to ease regulatory concerns about how the company and other tech giants police a growing problem

Rules passed in November set broad parameters for the country’s internet regulator to censor online content. Pakistan’s government says it will review the regulations that rights groups have decried as

In a hearing on her nomination for Commerce Department secretary on Tuesday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo told lawmakers that she will pursue changes to Section 230 if confirmed. Biden

Several Ugandan internet networks blocked Kenya-based news website The Elephant in mid-December 2020, according to the site’s publisher, John Githongo, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app in January 2021,

The “right to be forgotten” has been central to the global debate over the balance between individual privacy and freedom of information and of the media in recent years. Such

India’s government has threatened to punish employees at Twitter with fines and jail terms of up to seven years for restoring hundreds of accounts it has ordered the company to

The Supreme Court of India sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking framing of a law to regulate social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and

Russian authorities are escalating pressure on social media companies, forcing them to censor online content deemed illegal by the government, according to Human Rights Watch. Social media platforms have received

The Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications ordered mobile networks and internet service providers in the country to block Twitter and Instagram, according to Norwegian company Telenor, which offers mobile