Damming a river to catch a fish – DNW Podcast #590

About this episode

The episode discusses the use of domain suspensions for censoring online speech, featuring insights from Article19's report.

A discussion about using domain suspensions to censor online speech. Human rights organization Article19 recently released a report titled Damming a river to catch a fish, examining how governments and other entities are increasingly turning to the DNS layer to censor content. On today’s show, Michaela Nakayama Shapiro of Article19 explains what the organization found […] Post link: Damming a river to catch a fish – DNW Podcast #590 © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Allemann

Guest: Michaela Nakayama Shapiro

Topics covered

• domain suspensions
• censorship
• online speech
• DNS layer
• human rights

Keywords

• domain suspensions
• censorship
• online speech
• DNS
• Article19

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Article19

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