Governments That Have The Tightest Grip On The Internet
BY TYLER DURDEN
According to the 2021 Freedom House Freedom on the Net index, China was the country with the most controlled internet out of 70 nations assessed, scoring only 10 out of 100 possible index points.
Given the constant bombardment of cancellations and deplatforming, it is interesting that the report finds the United States internet “free” with a score of 75 (ranked only 12th in the world though) with Canada, Estonia, and Costa Rica ranking best for internet freedom.
As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz breaks down in the infographic below, some of the other least free countries on the internet are restrictive regimes like Iran, Myanmar and Cuba.
You will find more infographics at Statista
Vietnam in rank 5 has also been taking cues from its close ally China, which asserts internet control via the so-called Great Firewall, a collection of gateways that controls all internet traffic going in and out of the country, enabling the Chinese government to filter it. Iran and North Korea also employ this method. The idea has become popular among Southeast Asian nations, with Cambodia and Thailand recently mulling the introduction of this draconian measure of internet control.
Tight internet controls are also common in the Middle East and North Africa, with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain raking highly.
Russia came in a shared 11th place out of the 70 countries in the ranking. The report states that the blocking of content and platforms, disinformation campaigns, cyber attacks and persecution of users as well as a tightening of some cyber laws were happening in the country.
Finally, the report finds that government authorities investigated, arrested, or convicted people for their social media posts in at least 55 countries.
In fact, a booming commercial market for surveillance has given governments more capacity than ever before to flout the rule of law and monitor private communications at their discretion.
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(TLB) published this article from ZeroHedge as compiled and written by Tyler Durden
Emphasis added by (TLB) editors
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