Originally Published on iGMENA and Featured on OTF News Section Eighteen countries in the MENA region are Arabic-Speaking and have over 150 million internet users. Most of these countries enjoy fast growing internet penetration rates, mainly through mobile networks. However, the increase in internet access in many of those countries is faced with governmental information […]
This post first appeared in Global voices and can be found here. It was guest authored by Amin Jobran, who works as the MENA region outreach manager with the Internet censorship research group ASL19 . The United Arab Emirates federal government will soon pass an amendment that could criminalize the use of VPNs and other censorship-dodging […]