(TibetanReview.net, Oct17’24) –China has done it again, sharing the spot this time with Myanmar: the country with the world’s worst environment for internet freedom, according to the annual ranking by the US-based Freedom House, which released its report Oct 16. For the past decade, China has consistently ranked last in the world for internet freedom due to its all-pervading online surveillance and content control system dubbed the “Great Firewall,” noted the edition.cnn.com Oct 17. The organisation’s 2024 Freedom on the Net (FOTN) report assessed internet freedom based on data collected from Jun 2023 to May 2024 in terms of obstacles people face accessing the internet, limits on content and violations of users’ rights. China and Myanmar both scored 9 out of 100 in internet freedom, the lowest among all the countries assessed. The report from Freedom House, a US government-funded NGO, has found that global internet freedom has declined for the 14th consecutive year.

Source: CNN October 17, 2024 19:49 UTC