Maintenance in progress

three separate state-level tightenings of digital speech surfaced in one window: critical posts about the indian government and bjp reported as restricted or removed across platforms, facial recognition used to identify demonstrators at parliamentary marches with no legal framework governing it, and senegal replacing its media regulator with a body holding expanded authority over digital platforms amid internet shutdowns. the pattern is regulatory rather than technical — identification and oversight, not blocking.

digital rights monitoring, south asia and west africa