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A rough year for internet freedom

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A rough year for internet freedom

Freedom House's new report ties the rise of digital authoritarianism to declining democracy around the world.

Casey Newton
Sep 22, 2021
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A rough year for internet freedom

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Illustration of a city underneath a honeycomb laser grid. (Getty Images)
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Yesterday, I wrote about the increasingly difficult situation of platforms operating in authoritarian regimes: governments have figured out where platforms’ pressure points are, and have gotten increasingly good at exploiting them. Most worryingly, the Washington Post reported that Russia threatened the safety of Google’s employees in the …

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