Kilpatrick Townsend


Insights: Publications Analysis of Pakistan’s Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules, 2021 UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy August 2, 2022 Written by Governments around the world are grappling with how to regulate the digital space and, in particular, with the enormous power and influence which social media companies wield over the public discourse. Internet access has become a critical aspect of the exercise of fundamental rights, chiefly the right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also the right to freedom of assembly, as well as other economic, social and cultural rights. Particularly relevant across the Global South is the Internet's importance to the right of development, now recognized by the United Nations as a third-generation right.

Insights: Publications

Analysis of Pakistan’s Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules, 2021

UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy

August 2, 2022

Written by

Governments around the world are grappling with how to regulate the digital space and, in particular, with the enormous power and influence which social media companies wield over the public discourse. Internet access has become a critical aspect of the exercise of fundamental rights, chiefly the right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also the right to freedom of assembly, as well as other economic, social and cultural rights. Particularly relevant across the Global South is the Internet's importance to the right of development, now recognized by the United Nations as a third-generation right.