Despite high costs, both economically and socially, internet shutdowns will remain a tool for authoritarian leaders. Kazakhstan has long manipulated the internet to stifle dissent.

The UN has put its weight behind the multilateral Global Digital Compact as a new process to govern the internet. However, the world would be far better off supporting the long-running, multistakehol…

You might think that the country with the most internet shutdowns is an authoritarian dictatorship in the mold of Belarus. You would be wrong. 

Western democracies have often referenced the idea of an open and free internet while advocating policies which undermine that goal. The West needs to recalibrate their messaging to account for these…