The Internet is getting less and less free

Surveillance, attacks on digital speech, outright censorship and imprisonment are making the Internet less and less free, an annual Freedom House study has concluded.

Surveillance, attacks on digital speech, outright censorship and imprisonment are making the Internet less and less free, an annual Freedom House study has concluded.The organization’s latest Internet freedom report marks the fifth year in a row that digital civil liberties around the world have been curtailed. Of the 65 countries Freedom House looked at, 29 percent are considered “not free,” while even fewer — 27 percent — are said to have a “free” Internet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/28/the-internet-is-getting-less-and-less-free/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/73475228/internet-is-getting-less-and-less-free

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