Reaching out from the Global South
DO YOU remember when the internet still spread hope? After its invention in the‘80s, we had access to a mass of information, sites such as Napster allowed us to share so-called “private property” easily and, most importantly, we could publish what...
THE Films and Publications Board has mooted a proposal for the classification of online content that could result in the removal of free speech and communications freedoms guaranteed by South Africa's constitution. The proposal would also seriously compromise the principle of net neutrality. The...
Back in 1996 the WWW was in its infancy and South Africa's constitutional assembly was putting the final touches to a document which would become our Bill of Rights. I wrote a letter to Wired Magazine about the inclusion of a home-grown right which had heretofore been excluded from the lexicon of...
IF draconian plans announced by Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba to ban all Internet porn are put into effect, South Africa could end up with its very own "Great Wall of China" restricting digital freedom and abolishing net neutrality in the process. Net Neutrality is not just the idea...
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