The nonprofit Freedom House conducts annual research on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. This year he returns to present his report on the state of internet freedom in the main countries of our planet and the results are not at all promising .
The report shows that free access to internet freedom continues to fall (and there have been five consecutive years with this trend), with a more than striking decrease in the figures and where freedom of expression on the internet has dropped by 32%. the 65 countries under study , among which Spain is not found.
The country in the world with the least online freedom is undoubtedly China , which between the scale of 1 (total freedom) and 100 (total censorship), the Asian country has obtained 88 points. They are followed by Syria and Iran with 87 points, Ethiopia with 82 points, Cuba with 81 points and Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, with 79, 76, 73 and 72 points, respectively.
The country in Europe with the least freedom on the internet according to the report of this NGO is Belarus , with 64 points, followed by Russia with 62.
But it is not all bad news. Countries such as Iceland and Estonia are the clear example of the countries with the most freedom on the web , with 6 and 7 points out of 100 respectively. Canada, Germany, Australia, the United States, Japan, Italy, France, Hungary and the United Kingdom also have excellent results, all of them hovering an average of 20 points.
