The Global Drive to Control Big Tech S oc comial me m di pla unic a or tfo r m a ti on s sb loc Pol ked it reli ical, s gio oci blo us co al, o r cke d ntent ICT del netwo ibe rate rks ly d isru pte Pro d -go ma ver nip nm ula te oent co nlin mm Ne w e d ent iscu ato inc law o ssio rs rea rd ns s i pun ing rec t c ishm en ive s ent orsh Ne w pas ip o sed r inc law o re r res asing direc tric sur tive ting veil ano lance Blo g nym o imp ger or ity r riso ICT pas n sed for poli ed, or user a r tica i l or n prol rested Blo soc ong , g ge ial c ed d phy r o ont ete r si ent ntio kille cally aICT us n t t ac e r d( i nc k e l d udi o Tec r n g in hni gov cal cus at e tod y) hum rnmen tacks ag t an righ critics ainst ts o or r gan FO izat TN ion 202 s 1 FREEDOM ON THE NET 2021 SCO RE Types of key internet controls KEY INTERNET CONTROLS BY COUNTRY Freedom House documented how governments censor and control the digital sphere. Each colored cell represents at least one occurrence of the cited control during the report’s coverage period of June 2020 to May 2021; cells with an asterisk (*) represent events that occurred between June and August 2021, when the report was sent to print. The Key Internet Controls reflect restrictions on content of political, social, or religious nature. NO KEY INTERNET CONTROLS OBSERVED Canada Costa Rica Estonia France Iceland Japan United Kingdom FOTN Score 87 87 94 78 96 76 78 COUNTRY Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Brazil Cambodia China Colombia Cuba Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia Georgia Germany Ghana Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Italy Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libya Malawi Malaysia Mexico Morocco Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Philippines Russia Rwanda Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Sudan Taiwan Thailand The Gambia Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe June 2020 - May 2021 coverage period 24 @freedomonthenet 62 71 71 75 35 30 40 31 64 43 10 65 21 62 26 27 77 79 64 70 49 48 16 41 76 47 33 66 53 51 48 59 58 60 53 17 48 59 25 65 30 38 24 71 54 73 67 51 33 80 36 53 63 34 49 62 27 75 28 28 22 59 46 21 35 20 47 22 16 56 41 40 #FreedomOnTheNet