FIFAfrica Updates. When people use [hate speech] against people who are against the government — nobody cares.“Cameroon needs a robust agreement with Facebook — for them to be a watchdog that any message that is an attack is pulled down,” Agbor Balla said.Sign up for weekly global internet censorship news!A year-long internet shutdown in English-speaking regions stifled dissent The state-controlled newspaper Cameroon Tribune By January 2017, the West African nation shut down the internet in its English-speaking regions for more than a year. Complicating matters, however, is that governments often initially deny any involvement.For a government to implement restrictions on network connectivity or social media, it usually requires the compliance of ISPs. “An issue of The Guardian Post was posted [on Facebook] and somebody came and commented and I reacted to the person’s comment.
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They can also be more targeted. Often the answer is fear of retribution or legal consequences, including the loss of their operating licenses or even prosecution of their executives.During the network shutdown during the 2018 election in the DRC, internet provider Global In certain cases, there is no need for the government to go through private-sector middlemen when it wants to restrict connectivity. Blocking entire social media platforms or popular messaging applications can have much the same effect as network shutdowns: the ability to communicate is severely limited and access to information is restricted. Follow her on twitter at @isabelalinzer.Is the a blockage or a blackout in Algeria now? Internet shutdowns in Africa were more frequent and lasted longer in 2019. If they win the mountain race so what? Samuel is an English-speaking Cameroonian from Southwest, an Anglophone region, who asked Global Voices to withhold his full identity for fear of repression:Often we get official documents from federations in French. When my English colleagues ask why it is like that, most French colleagues hit back, saying Journalists in Cameroon have had to be very careful about reporting on atrocities related to the country's long-running separatist war. An internet shutdown in the primarily Anglophone regions of north-west and south-west Cameroon is now in its 13th day. This is the case in Ethiopia, where the government has a monopoly on the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. He insulted me on the platform and even wrote me a private message describing me as a ‘government agent’,” Kehdinga said.It’s a normal phenomenon … if a frontpage newspaper gives a positive side of separatists, we are attacked — it’s the same scenario if we write on the side of the government. By allowing this headline, The Median is supporting a wrongful insult. By Yomi Kazeem. As of January 30, the blockage in the Anglophone regions including in key towns such as Buea and Bameda remains in … The shutdown was first initiated across the country on January 16 and on January 17, internet access was reinstated in the Francophone parts of the country. Last month’s shutdowns in Often lost in the wave of incidents, however, is a clear examination of the distinctions between each case. (Unlike shutdowns and throttling, which affect overall connectivity, blocking specifically targets access to certain platforms or content. In many countries, certain social media companies serve as the main portal to the internet. Reuters/Feisal Omar. Total shutdown, 2019 Cameroon Regional total shutdown, 2017 & 2018 Network disrupted Countries Undisrupted Countries Undisrupted Countries Hybrid Regimes Flawed Democracies #InternetFreedomAfrica | 5 Whatsapp disrupted (2016) Full internet shutdown (2019) Social media shutdown (2019) There is more that the countries that have experienced disruptions in 2019 share in … Sudan has shut down the internet amid protests on various occasions.Since 2017, authorities in 19 African countries have temporarily blocked social media or restricted internet service. Users in countries at risk of connectivity disruptions should consider downloading VPNs preemptively because doing so once networks and platforms are disrupted can be challenging. No service.