Tag: Internet
Solomons to ban Facebook but claims ‘media freedom to remain’
By Georgina Kekea in Honiara
The Solomon Islands cabinet has agreed to ban the world’s biggest social networking platform Facebook in the country.
The submission for...
Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era
By RNZ Pacific
Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia's democracies, according to a new edition of the Pacific Journalism Review.
With its first special...
Mong Palatino: Cyber trolling targets opposition against Duterte’s Terror Bill
COMMENT: By Mong Palatino in Manila
The proliferation of fake Facebook accounts in the Philippines is meant to derail the growing public opposition against the...
Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil...
Free speech? No it’s about bigots who seek the right to...
Professor Paul Spoonley spoke about hate speech, political discourse and religious diversity in the wake of the 15 March 2019 Mosque Massacre in a...
Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says...
By Michael Andrew
Social media and tech industries have been replicating the ugliest aspects of capitalism from the 1800s, according to an AUT computer science...
Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A West Papuan journalist, editor and media freedom advocate has lodged a protest to the United Nations about Indonesia’s internet blackout...
Herald paywall could turn readers to rival Stuff, warns AUT lecturer
By RNZ News
The New Zealand Herald’s new premium paywall could turn readers to digital competitor Stuff, warns Auckland University of Technology communication studies lecturer Dr...
Bob Howarth: Role of journalism in developing and protecting democracy
COMMENT: By Bob Howarth in Dili
Today, World Press Freedom Day, is being celebrated in all democratic parts of the world. And Timor-Leste has much...
Vietnamese blogger critic missing and feared ‘kidnapped’ in Bangkok
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Thai authorities to shed all possible light on the disappearance of Truong Duy...
Tonga’s communications blackout ‘a problem out of their control’
By Philip Cass and Kalino Latu
Tonga's abrupt communications blackout may last up to two weeks before the fibre optic submarine cable restores the internet...
Critics see Fiji’s Online Safety Act as ‘Trojan horse’ for online...
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
Fiji’s Online Safety Act took effect this month amid concerns that it will be used to censor the internet.
The...
Open letter from MP for Wabag: EMTV move ‘dictatorship before our...
OPINION: By Dr Lino Jeremaih Tom, MP for Wabag
The suspension of EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide has brought us to a new low...
‘Don’t play with fire’ warning in Samoa’s social media threat
Many Samoans are angry over a threat by the prime minister earlier this year to ban the social media platform Facebook amid growing pressure...
Why data power of social media giants like Facebook troubles human...
By Sarah Joseph in Melbourne
Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal...
PNG mobile revolution about to enter new high-speed cable phase
By Scott Waide in Lae
In 2007 when Digicel entered the PNG market, Papua New Guineans realised how much in unnecessary charges they had been...
Cyber ‘provocation’ Indonesian police’s biggest challenge, says Kalla
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Cyber "provocation" -- through social media -- is one of the biggest challenges being faced by the Indonesia's national police (Polri)...
Annie Goldson talks to RNZ’s Sunday on the Kim Dotcom doco
Kim Dotcom ... the "most wanted man online". Video: Caught in the Web
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web is the new...
Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?
By Dr Amanda Watson in Port Moresby
In Papua New Guinea, the Post-Courier featured a front-page story with the headline “PNG tops world in ‘porn’...
New tech downgrades reading, harms critical thinking, says Fiji academic
By Losalini Bolatagici in Suva
Critical thinking — the ability to reason effectively — is declining and it's worrying.
Dr Jito Vanualailai, director of the research...
High school teacher brings alternative narratives on 1965 Indonesian purge
By Elly Burhaini Faizal in Jakarta
A high school Indonesian history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966...