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The report by the non-government watchdog group Freedom House said online freedom declined in 36 of 65 countries surveyed. Governments use revelations about surveillance by the US National Security Agency to justify efforts to boost their own monitoring of Internet users and to crack down on dissent. Countries are adopting laws that legitimize existing repression and effectively criminalize online dissent, issuu/freedomhouse/docs/fotn_2013_charts_and_graphs__web_ The largest declines in freedom online were in Russia and Turkey, with significant drops in Ukraine, Angola and Azerbaijan. In Russia, the report cited multiple new laws to block online content and prosecute people for political dissent. In Turkey, Freedom House cited increased censorship, especially of social media.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:34:35 +0000

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