India suffered the sharpest single-year decline in web freedom around the world in 2013, a US-based organization, Freedom House, said in a report on the state of the internet in 60 countries.
The report said India's internet status was "partly free", the same as last year. But the country's score had risen in the past year from 39 to 47 points. Higher score means more censorship. The eight-point rise is the steepest Freedom House found among the 60 countries surveyed.
Net freedom also declined sharply in the US, Brazil and Venezuela, all of which recorded a five-point rise in censorship score. Despite the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for National Security Agency in the US, Freedom House said internet in America was "free".
The report said that in 2013 India "suffered from deliberate interruptions of mobile and internet service to limit unrest, excessive blocks on content during rioting in northeastern states, and an uptick in the filing of criminal charges against ordinary users for posts on social media sites". Full story...
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The report said India's internet status was "partly free", the same as last year. But the country's score had risen in the past year from 39 to 47 points. Higher score means more censorship. The eight-point rise is the steepest Freedom House found among the 60 countries surveyed.
Net freedom also declined sharply in the US, Brazil and Venezuela, all of which recorded a five-point rise in censorship score. Despite the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for National Security Agency in the US, Freedom House said internet in America was "free".
The report said that in 2013 India "suffered from deliberate interruptions of mobile and internet service to limit unrest, excessive blocks on content during rioting in northeastern states, and an uptick in the filing of criminal charges against ordinary users for posts on social media sites". Full story...
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