Protection of Information Bill

Online censorship, it would seem, is no longer the preserve of governments bandying around acronyms like SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. Google and Twitter both recently announced censorship measures that are going to be put in place on Blogger and Twitter respectively and one isn’t wrong in thinking that the days ...

As recent news has shown, the South African government has started showing a significant interest in the media. Take, for example, the highly controversial Protection of Information Bill which is seeking to restrict mainstream media and, in my honest opinion, to impose yet another layer of control by our seemingly ...

What happens when a government moves to clamp down on media freedom? It might simply force journalists in that country to adopt the WikiLeaks model when it comes to publishing sensitive information. Here's an example: The South African government recently announced a triple play to clamp down on media freedom in ...