Countries with more Internet freedom

The Freest Country Online Is…

Estonia and Iceland have the most online freedom in the world, according to a new Freedom House report, with very few barriers to internet access, content and freedom of expression. Canada and Germany round out the top three.

According to the annual Freedom on the Net report, which ranks countries based on three categories -- obstacles to access (infrastructure, government blocking of specific apps etc), limits on content (such as government censorship, diversity of online news media), and violations of user rights (including surveillance, legal prosecution and other harassment) – 32 nations have seen declines in internet freedom over the past year.

Meanwhile: “Governments in a total of 30 countries deployed some form of manipulation to distort online information, up from 23 the previous year. Paid commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites, and propaganda outlets were among the techniques used by leaders to inflate their popular support and essentially endorse themselves.”

The least free country? China, followed by Syria and Ethiopia.

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