“My computer was arrested before I was.” This perceptive comment was made by a Syrian activist who had been arrested and tortured by the Assad regime. Caught by means of online surveillance, Karim Taymour told a Bloomberg journalist that, during interrogation, he was shown a stack of hundreds of pages of printouts of his Skype chats and files downloaded remotely from his computer hard drive...
The map from Oxford Internet Institute aims to provide a global overview of the network, and a general sense of how information traverses our planet, also includes symbols referring to countries listed as “Enemies of the Internet” in the 2014 report of Reporters Without Borders.
This map uses data sourced from cablemap. Each node has been assigned to a country, and all nodes located in the same country have been collapsed into a single node.
This map shows a simplification of the world’s network of submarine fibre-optic cables