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March 25, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The Papua New Guinea government has admitted to using a technology that it says was “successfully tested” to block social media platforms, particularly Facebook, for much of the day yesterday. Police Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr said the “test” was done under the framework of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2024, ... <a title="PNG ‘test ban’ blocks Facebook – governor Bird warns of tyranny risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/png-test-ban-blocks-facebook-governor-bird-warns-of-tyranny-risk/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘test ban’ blocks Facebook – governor Bird warns of tyranny risk">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Pip Hinman and Susan Price Meta, the giant social media corporation, has “unpublished” Green Left’s longstanding Facebook page, which had tens of thousands of followers. We had been regularly posting stories, videos and photographs on the page from our consistent reporting of the news and views that seldom get into the mainstream media. ... <a title="Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/30/green-left-fights-another-facebook-ban-without-warning-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Michael Field Just the other day a robot guard came along a corridor in a special digital prison, consulted his flatscreen embedded on its wrist and then pressed his thumb on a door, which sprang open. For the fourth time, I was being released from Facebook prison having served a term of imprisonment ... <a title="Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/24/michael-field-freedom-at-midday-stories-from-facebook-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2022
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Censoring of Facebook in Papua New Guinea can be addressed by three mandated government agencies, says Chief Censor Jim Abani. He was responding to the Post-Courier on how his office was dealing with indecent content posted on Facebook in view of a controversy over a video of an alleged ... <a title="Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/three-png-government-agencies-have-power-to-censor-facebook/" aria-label="Read more about Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report The troubled nation of Solomon Islands, whose Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare won a no-confidence vote 32 votes to 15 with two abstentions on Monday, has been downgraded from “open” to “narrow” in the people power under attack 2021 CIVICUS Monitor report. While the majority of Pacific countries were rated ... <a title="Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/solomon-islands-downgraded-over-riots-troubles-in-new-civicus-report/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare insists his government will push on with the temporary suspension of Facebook while lawmakers explore ways to regulate social media. In a statement in Parliament today, a fired-up Sogavare did not hide his government’s desire to suspend Facebook. He said since that the announcement ... <a title="PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/pm-defends-temporary-suspension-of-facebook-until-new-law-in-place/" aria-label="Read more about PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Struggling businesses have expressed concerns and international media rights groups have condemned the Solomon Islands government’s proposal to temporarily ban Facebook. The Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI), as the peak body representing private sector in Solomon Islands, is particularly concerned with the negative impacts this decision will ... <a title="Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/solomon-islands-businesses-rights-groups-condemn-facebook-ban-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tonga is mulling a Facebook ban as the Kingdom struggles to contain a torrent of online abuse and threats on the platform directed at the monarchy by pro-government forces. It’s the latest fallout in an escalating digital war between the pro-democracy camp and those firmly backing Tonga’s constitutional monarchy, which bestows the ... <a title="‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/we-cant-control-the-demons-tonga-mulls-facebook-ban/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban">Read more</a>
