Tag: YouTube

The Myanmar junta is building an alternative propaganda machine and banning Youtube and Facebook across the country. MTube and OKPar apps are being offered as alternatives.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and Access Now, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations, are voicing our frustration at how platform policies and content moderation procedures all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices across the Middle East and North Africa.

Access Now and 42 human rights organizations, journalists, and activists from across the globe call on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to not be complicit in censorship of human rights defenders across the Middle East and North Africa.

Watch via YouTube: Join human rights activists and experts — including Peggy Hicks from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights — as they explore incidents of internet shutdowns documented in Myanmar, Tanzania, and Belarus during 2020 elections.

Writing sound policy to address challenges linked to online speech (even “terrorist” content) requires a carefully considered, measured, and proportionate approach.

Across the region, authorities are leveraging accusations of “fake news” and imposing harsh prison sentences — in some cases, 10 years — based on what an advocate has posted online.

Governments globally are pushing companies to “do more” to address harmful speech online. Any approach must bolster, not undermine, human rights.

The government is using terrorism as an excuse to clamp down on human rights. This has to stop.

Following 67 days of censorship, YouTube was unblocked in Turkey on Tuesday following a ruling last week by the Constitutional Court that the ban violates freedom of expression. While Access welcomes the Court’s decision, the underlying legal frameworks allowing such censorship still exist.