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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by UVB-76 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:56AM (#11760138)
Link to the actual report: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2015

Let's not kid ourselves, though. The US scored 19 and UK scored 24 (on the scale of 0-100, 0 being most free)

Censorship is alive and well in the West.

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by okc on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @06:24AM (#11760252)
The criteria for censorship at the 20 points level - could be debated as - quite healthy criteria.

Criteria such as the government controlling online harassment is classed, rightly, as censorship. Political anarchy would be the reflection of 0 point score.

Is 0, 10, 20, even 30 or 40 points the optimum score: thats debatable. At the 80+ level, its really not debatable.

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