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According to a new published report, it was found that the number of people who have access to the Internet in the world has doubled in the last five years and has reached more than two billion people. According to A.’s report, quoted by the Economist and “Inquirer” internet site, based on a new report by “freeom house”, an American think tank that works on internet and civil liberties. Many governments have responded to increasing people’s access to the Internet with laws and repressions. In this report, it was announced that the freedoms of some countries in Internet matters are less compared to the previous years and the Internet restrictions in those countries have increased a lot. In this report, it was stated that access to social networks has had a great effect on intensifying the activities of the opposition throughout the Arab world. Also in some countries Including Georgia and Estonia, Internet freedoms have already been more than two years ago. In this report, it was also announced that internet freedoms in the world are decreasing and warnings have been given about cyber attacks and censorship of content on the internet. In this report, countries with complete internet freedom are scored between 0 and 30, countries with moderate internet freedom are scored between 31 and 60, and countries with very little internet freedom are scored between 61 and 100. In this statistic, the position of China is 83 and Iran is 89. |
