New Internet freedom report ranks Estonia first, Iran last

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13 points·sebkomianos··8 comments

Where is the data we can feed on? Didn't see any links or tables.

Australia is green and Russia is "blocking the Internet".

The sad thing, the more you abuse the words like freedom, the less they actually mean. And you no longer can cry wolf when you need to.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=664

Link to what seems to be the actual report.

The actual report seems to be well-written and knowledgeable, but does not reveal how they assign points.

This seems to answer some of your questions: http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/MethodologyandC...

edit: huge table with points: http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/MainScoreTable....

This huge table of point isn't broken by subcategory.

So we don't know how much country was punished for flaky phone lines and how much - for seizing .com domains, for example.

Thanks. Is there a huge table with points somewhere?

This is where the report comes from apparently: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=664

I would have been interested in seeing France ranked in there. Reporters without Borders put France "under surveillance" in part due to the HADOPI law on copyright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law ) which, amongst other things, can lead to Internet access being suspended. Reporter without Borders report: http://en.rsf.org/surveillance-france,39715.html

The Economist had an article about this last week: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/internet_f...

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