by SAMSN Admin | Jun 15, 2017 | Internet Freedom, Nepal, SAMSN Blog
Ujjwal Acharya muses about how life – professional, social and personal – is utterly cramped in the absence of access to the internet, necessitating a strong pushback to attempts to shut it down. It is almost impossible to think of life without the ubiquitous...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 14, 2017 | India, Internet Freedom, SAMSN Blog
Composing an email can sometimes be more than typing and pressing a send button. For over an year now, the meaning of sending and checking emails has changed for me. It means hours of dictation on the phone to any friend who is connected to the internet and pestering...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Bangladesh, Internet Freedom, SAMSN Blog
On the guise of clamping down on religious extremism, Bangladesh has often shutdown the Internet. But this causes more misinformation and speculation, says Sam Jahan. I had to re-write this essay several times: to remain safe. You may wonder why. I will explain soon....
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 7, 2017 | Internet Freedom, Nepal, SAMSN Blog
Prateek Pradhan, editor-in-chief, baahrakhari.com, recalls the Nepal King’s absolute communication clampdown in Nepal more than a dozen years ago, and discusses the lessons learned. Ujjwal Acharya: In February, 2005, King Gyanendra cut off all communication channels,...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 6, 2017 | Internet Freedom, Release, South Asia
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) today launched the Tracking Error 404: IFJ-SAMSN Guide to Monitoring Internet Shutdowns during the ongoing campaign against internet shutdowns in South Asia. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 2, 2017 | India, Internet Freedom, SAMSN Blog
Faisul Yaseen, political editor of the English daily Rising Kashmir published from Srinagar, provides an insider’s view of how error 404 is crushing journalism in Kashmir. Every now and then Kashmir finds itself in an age when Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack...
