Global Internet freedom and even decline in 5 years

Non-governmental organization Freedom House (Freedom House) report released today, as more and more government strengthening supervision and crackdown on dissidents of using blogs and social media, global Internet freedom fell for the 5th year in a row.

Agence France-Presse reports, Freedom House annual report pointed out that networks declining degrees of freedom in the Middle East is particularly evident, so that the "Arab spring" backwards.

Freedom House found that since June 2014 to assess network of 32 of the 65 countries in free fall, and in Libya, and France and Ukraine especially.

Found that 61% people around the world live in criticizing the Government, the military or ruling family must review States.

58% population live on bloggers in the network share on the political, social and religious topics were the State of imprisonment.

Survey says, in a new trend, many Governments when they seek review of opposition elements, will be turned Google (Google), Facebook (Facebook) and Twitter (Twitter) networking platform, through pressure on network platform to remove the content.

Freedom House survey of the project Kelly (Sanja Kelly) says, "instead of relying on blocking and filtering, increased Government on individuals and private-sector pressure to win or to remove the offensive content. 」

"Because the Government knows that general technical users are increasingly sophisticated, there is a way to avoid Government blockade. 」

Reported that the past 1 years, 65 countries in 14 States to pass laws to strengthen the electronic surveillance.