Reporters Without Borders has awarded this year’s Internet Freedom Prize to Chinese cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who has been in prison for four years for criticising the Chinese government on his website.
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The organization has also issued “The Internet Under Surveillance”, its annual report on the state of online freedom in more than 60 countries.
It appears that the rights of Internet users, webmasters and online journalists have been substantially curbed since the 11 September 2001 attacks. The fight against terrorism has led to stricter monitoring of Internet traffic in both democracies and under authoritarian regimes.
Read the report.
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