STOPDISINFORMATION<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> under the guise of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internetregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internetregulation</span></a></p><p>@netzpolitik.org: How did your focus shift?</p><p>*Nighat Dad: We’ve seen governments in our region introduce <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a> under the guise of addressing online harms such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a>, terrorism, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercrime</span></a>. But when we looked more closely, it became clear that these <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> were often being used to suppress dissent and curtail <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freeexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeexpression</span></a> online</p><p><a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2025/global-majority-house-how-activists-want-to-bring-global-majority-perspectives-into-eu-tech-policy/#netzpolitik-pw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">netzpolitik.org/2025/global-ma</span><span class="invisible">jority-house-how-activists-want-to-bring-global-majority-perspectives-into-eu-tech-policy/#netzpolitik-pw</span></a></p>