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Dear John,
Today, more than three-quarters of the world’s internet users live in countries where the authorities punish people for their speech online, and 2022 marked the 12th consecutive year of decline in internet freedom, according to our newest report, Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering the Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet.
Despite the alarming state of human rights online, we found reason to be hopeful: civil society is not only pushing back against digital repression—oftentimes, they are winning.
Freedom on the Net author Allie Funk shares that by working together, governments, the private sector, and civil society can strengthen resilience in the digital sphere and foster a more democratic future.
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Explore Freedom on the Net 2022
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Freedom on the Net is Freedom House’s annual survey and analysis of internet freedom around the world.
Explore Freedom on the Net 2022 and learn how governments are on a campaign to divide the open internet into a patchwork of repressive enclaves.
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How Governments Censor and Control the Digital Sphere
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Authoritarian governments around the world weaponize access to the digital sphere.
Freedom on the Net monitors the application of nine Key Internet Controls. Check out our interactive data trends graph and learn how governments are expanding and diversifying constraints on internet freedom.
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China Gains When Democracies Target Press Freedoms
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While democracies cannot control Beijing’s drive to expand its influence globally, they can control their own policies and responses.
For Al Jazeera, Freedom House expert Angeli Datt writes that democratic societies have the means to resist this effort, but they but if they are to succeed, they must stop damaging the very tools and assets that are their biggest shields.
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Vladimir Putin's unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is an attack on democracy. Though the Ukrainian military has made promising advancements recently, the human toll of the war continues to mount.
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Freedom House in the News
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Freedom House is hosting, moderating, and
participating in various upcoming events.
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We encourage you to subscribe to Freedom House's other newsletters, including:
The China Media Bulletin
A monthly newsletter that offers unique insight on censorship, media freedom, and internet freedom issues related to the People's Republic of China, drawing on both English and Chinese-language sources
All our newsletters are available for subscription here.
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Defend Democracy,
Champion Freedom.
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