The Internet was originally envisaged as a place where people could share information freely from across the globe. Soon enough though, governments realize that this needed to change considering that such a power in the hands of people could be used for means not exactly in their favor. With this came internet censorship, mass surveillance to an all-out denial of access in some countries.
Investigating this deeper, researchers at Tech.co have released a new report which examines the 30 worst countries globally for their freedom of internet access and ranks them accordingly. The factors used to calculate these include regulations surrounding privacy tools, content bans, freedom of speech and surveillance policies.
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Let’s dig deeper into the list.
1: Turkmenistan
First up is Turkmenistan, a Central Asian country not heard of often. Perhaps, it’s because of how the dictatorial regime has managed to suppress any dissent? The country has only one state-owned internet service provider named Turkmentelecom and hence has used this monopoly privilege to ban major sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Additionally, surveillance is a constant but rest assured, unless NSA is helping them, they wouldn’t have gone so deep in.
2: North Korea
In the second place, we have the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D ..
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