Freedom House
Acknowledgements and Sources
Freedom on the Net is a collaborative effort between
Freedom House staff and a network of more than 95
independent researchers, who come from civil society
organizations, academia, journalism, and other backgrounds,
covering 72 countries. In repressive environments, Freedom
House takes care to ensure researchers’ anonymity and/or
works with experts living abroad.
Freedom House expresses gratitude to the global internet
freedom community, including the many individuals and
organizations whose tireless and courageous work informs
this report.
This report was made possible by the generous support of
the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Dutch Postcode
Lottery, Google, Internet Society, The New York Community
Trust, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), and Verizon.
Amelia Larson, David Meijer, Shannon O’Toole, Tyler Roylance,
and Lora Uhlig edited Freedom on the Net. Gerardo Berthin,
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Annie Boyajian, Yana Gorokhovskaia,
Nate Schenkkan, Adrian Shahbaz, Lara Shane, and Yaqiu Wang
provided valuable feedback on the summary of findings.
Clara Apt, Phumelele Mncina, César Augusto Portocarrero
Rodríguez, Rachel Simroth, Nodari Tsaava, and Jessica White
provided research assistance.
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Freedom House is committed to editorial independence and
is solely responsible for this report’s content.
CONTRIBUTORS
Freedom House staff
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Allie Funk, Research Director for Technology
and Democracy
Jennifer Brody, Deputy Director of Policy and
Advocacy for Technology and Democracy
Cathryn Grothe, Senior Research Analyst for
Democracy Studies
Kian Vesteinsson, Senior Research Analyst for
Technology and Democracy
Grant Baker, Research Analyst for Technology
and Democracy
Aashna Agarwal, Research Associate for Technology
and Democracy
Matthew Barak, Research Associate
Mina Loldj, Research Associate, Free Them All: The
Fred Hiatt Program to Free Political Prisoners
Maddie Masinsin, Community Engagement Specialist
for Technology and Democracy
Elizabeth Sutterlin, Research Associate for Technology
and Democracy
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Argentina: Eduardo Ferreyra, independent researcher
Armenia: Samvel Martirosyan, Co-Founder of CyberHUB
Australia: Lizzie O'Shea and Samantha Floreani, Digital
Rights Watch
Azerbaijan: Arzu Geybulla, independent researcher
Bangladesh: Rezwan I., independent researcher
Brazil: Artur Pericles Lima Monteiro, Schmidt Visiting
Scholar, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs; Resident
Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School;
Affiliated Researcher, Constitution, Law & Politics Group,
University of São Paulo
Canada: Allen Mendelsohn, McGill University
Chile: Danielle Zaror M., law professor at
Universidad de Chile
Colombia: Susana Echavarría Medina and Emmanuel
Vargas Penagos, El Veinte
Costa Rica: Óscar Mario Jiménez Alvarado, Fernando
José Martínez de Lemos, Johanna Rodríguez López,
Programa de Libertad de Expresión y Derecho a la
Información (PROLEDI)
Cuba: Ted A. Henken, Baruch College, City
University of New York
Ecuador: Emily Fonseca-Jácome and Margarita YépezVillareal, Fundación Datalat
Estonia: Hille Hinsberg and Florian Marcus,
Proud Engineers
Ethiopia: Atnafu Brhane, independent researcher
France: Audrey Cerrone, independent researcher
Georgia: Teona Turashvili, Institute for Development of
Freedom of Information (IDFI)
Germany: Matthieu Binder and Raphael
Hadadi, iRights.Lab
Hungary: Dalma Dojcsák, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
Iceland: Arnaldur Sigurðarson, independent researcher
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