The Communist Party’s State Telecommunications Company of Cuba (ETECSA) relied on technology from Chinese mega-firms such as Huawei and ZTE to shut down nationwide access to the internet following protests on July 11, multiple reports concluded this week.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) stated that restoring Internet access to Cuba is easier than people think and accused the Biden administration of “misrepresenting the facts” on the
A Chinese state newspaper called Economic Information Daily published an article on Tuesday that compared Internet gaming to opium addiction.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill released Sunday includes a spending item partly based on race.
Protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand Biden take more action against Cuba’s communist regime.
Teens worldwide are reporting a sharper rise in feelings of loneliness than a decade ago, an outcome that may be linked to smartphone use, a study has found.
President Joe Biden is still exploring options to restore Internet access to Cuba, the White House claimed on Friday.
Brendan Carr said the U.S. can provide Internet access to Cuba and circumvent the digital blockade imposed on the one-party island state.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) argued that if the Cuban people get Internet access back, “the Castro regime is done.” Scott said President Joe Biden must “find out how to
Cuba’s state-run telecom monopoly ETECSA restricted access to major social media platforms and messaging apps on Monday as part of temporary internet shutdowns meant to quell anti-government protests across the island, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday.
Many high-profile websites were taken down by an outage at the cloud-computing company Fastly this week. Now it’s reported that the bug was triggered when a single Fastly customer innocently changed their settings, triggering a total systems failure.
Paedophile Abdul Hasib Elahi has pled guilty to targetting nearly 2,000 women and children in a global online blackmail scheme.
Several of the world’s most trafficked websites were inaccessible Tuesday morning, with many impacted sites showing 503 errors.
Nigerians can now register online to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine, Nigeria’s government announced Monday, though Internet access remains scarce in the country, with less than half of Nigerians able use it.
Martin Avila, the CEO of IT infrastructure company Right Forge, which provides digital services for center-right businesses and groups, recently published an op-ed arguing that a second internet must be created to maintain digital freedom.
The popular digital workplace service Slack recently suffered an outage on the first full workday of 2021. Companies that rely on the platform to manage their remote work activities were left unable to connect to the service for most of the day on Monday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) found several ways to exploit the coronavirus pandemic it unleashed, ruthlessly using the incalculable economic, political, and social damage inflicted upon the rest of the world to its advantage.
The University of Michigan (U-M) released a gloomy report about growing Internet censorship on Tuesday, warning that even countries with high liberty ratings from human rights advocates like Freedom House are censoring Internet content with increasingly heavy hands.
The government of Nigeria is currently weighing if it should cut access to the internet amid ongoing anti-police protests, local media reported on Wednesday.
“Cancel culture” with increasingly enter more areas of life if unstopped, warned Breitbart News Senior Tech Reporter Allum Bokhari, author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Britain’s Prince Harry on Thursday accused social media of stoking a “crisis of hate” as he revealed he and wife Meghan had been personally lobbying companies to rethink their roles in advertising on digital platforms in thier dual effort to rebuild both the world and the internet.
Republicans must use every legislative instrument available to combat big tech’s political censorship, said Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).
Google’s suppression of Breitbart News content on its search engine is part of a broader strategy to “steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden and the radical left,” said Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak, author of Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism?, in a Tuesday interview with Mark Levin on the latter’s eponymous radio show.
In his annual “State of the Nation” address on Monday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte urged telecommunication companies to improve the country’s Internet service “by December” because he said he wants to “make a Zoom call with Jesus Christ himself in Bethlehem,” local news outlet Coconuts Manila reported.
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure provider and content delivery network, is reportedly suffering outages resulting in major websites crashing across the internet.
In this post-collapse socialist Venezuela, bureaucracy has become a monster worthy of a mythological tale and, much like everything else that has systematically collapsed over the past years, it has become ripe for corruption and bribery.
Authorities in Ethiopia imposed a nationwide shutdown of the Internet on Tuesday amid protests over the death of a prominent musician and political activist, Internet monitoring organizations and rights groups have confirmed.
Political censorship from the world’s largest technology companies places elections at risk through manipulation of information, warned Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.
Charlene Doak-Gebauer, author and expert on digital safety for children and families, said that during the coronavirus outbreak, children who are sequestered inside homes and using devices more than usual are at higher risk for exposure to pornography and online predators.
Police in Detroit, Michigan, have reportedly arrested a man after videos of the individual appearing to abuse elderly people went viral across social media. Numerous citizen sleuths collated information on the incidents and alleged perpetrator, leading the Detroit police to thank the public for their contributions to the case.
President Donald Trump marveled on Thursday at the continued support he receives from supporters online.
Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, addressed the aftermath of the FCC’s decision to end net neutrality decision during an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday. Carr claimed that internet speeds have increased by 70 percent since the net neutrality decision.
Rush Limbaugh warned Americans of the Democrats’ attempt to use the coronavirus emergency as a means to “decapitate” the U.S. economy.
A recent report states that internet usage has surged by between 50 and 70 percent during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic while streaming services have seen a 12 percent increase in usage.
Comcast is offering to help low-income families stay connected via the Internet amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The LendEDU website conducted a survey with student loan borrowers to gauge the popularity of having their debt forgiven.
The Iranian regime is once again blocking Internet access in an effort to control mass protests erupting across the country after the ayatollah’s troops shot down a civilian airliner and attempted to cover up the crime.
The State Department on Monday urged social media companies to suspend the social media accounts of Iran’s leaders after they cut access to the Internet amid widespread protests in the country.
Speaking at a meeting in Munich of officials from around the world gathered to tackle the issue of antisemitism, World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder demanded action against antisemitism, especially new laws that would regulate its spread over the internet.
