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“This cycle of surveillance, interrogation, and imprisonment has an obvious chilling effect on digital expression. Palestinians cannot know when a call to national solidarity might be labeled by Israeli predictive algorithms as incitement. They cannot know if a Facebook “like” directed at any number of Palestinian political bodies may be construed as support for terrorism or when a new group may be declared a terrorist entity.”

How to End Israel’s Digital Occupation Foreign Policy    “Can Clubhouse actually serve as a potential avenue for much-needed political debate and open discussion in the Middle East? Or will it be co-opted and manipulated by regimes, like other platforms and social networks that came before it?”

Is Clubhouse Really a Harbinger of Free Speech in the Middle East?
DAWN“Despite worldwide physical isolation, many people were more digitally connected than ever before, which vastly expanded the attack surface for eager cyber threat actors (TAs). More than two years on, we have seen how such actors were able to take social engineering attacks to the next level in the wake of the mass panic and social instability that followed the onset of the pandemic, effectively taking advantage of the new reality.”

Ransomware in the UAE: Evolving threats and expanding responses
Middle East Institute

In a world where internet freedom is, for all intents and purposes, essentially synonymous with press freedom, Pakistan's TikTok ban follows an established history of media suppression, surveillance, and censorship in the country, including recent violent crackdowns on journalists themselves.

Ransomware in the UAE: Evolving threats and expanding responses
Middle East Institute

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