There’s still plenty of reason to know how to use this Morse telegraph key.
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Morse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a smartphone touchscreen.
Why might a country want to cut off its internet connection?
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Vladimir Putin’s complaints about Western power over telecommunications echo – if not co-opt – concerns raised by less powerful nations for decades.
Digital information should be private and secure.
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Recent developments at the United Nations and the G-20 suggest that the well-known human rights to privacy and freedom of expression may soon be formally extended to online communications.
Most South Africans are dependent on unaffordable mobile data to access the Internet.
Indra de Lanerolle
It is time to demand the ‘positive right’ of affordable access if we want internet freedom for all.