Internet freedom is dying
 

Internet freedom is going the way of the dodo, the dinosaur and the MP3 player thanks to government enforcers, according to a new study.

A report, penned by the advocacy group Freedom House, looked at online trends in 60 countries.

It noted that despite a pushback from activists that successfully blocked some governments' repressive laws, internet freedom plummeted in the last year.

In 35 of the countries monitored, governments had expanded their legal and technical spying powers over the internet.

Broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content and growing arrests of social media users drove a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the past year, the report concluded.

Iceland has the most internet freedom while China, Cuba and Iran had the least.

Declines in online freedom were led by three democracies - Brazil, India and the United States.

Revelations by Edward Snowden showed that changes in US online freedom were eroding faster than Blackberry's bottom line.

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