WASHINGTON, Oct 14 — Governments around the world are using the pandemic as a justification to expand surveillance and crack down on dissent online, resulting in a 10th consecutive annual decline in internet freedom, a human rights watchdog report said today. The report by Washington-based...
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This is leading to increasing censorship of dissent and the expansion of technological systems for social control, according to the report. Freedom House’s index of internet based on a score assigned on a 100-point scale to 65 countries shows a drop in internet freedom for a 10The scale is based on 21 indicators pertaining to obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights.It said Chinese authorities “combined low- and high-tech tools not only to manage the outbreak of the coronavirus, but also to deter internet users from sharing information from independent sources and challenging the official narrative.
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