False Freedom
Across the Middle East and North Africa, the Internet is spreading rapidly as a means of accessing information, exchanging ideas and expressing opinions, particularly in countries where the press is tightly controlled by governments.
However, governments are moving to stop the spread of ideas and opinions by blocking websites and jailing Internet users, a new report by Human Rights Watch finds.
“False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa” documents online censorship in Tunisia, Iran, Syria and Egypt. It finds that governments in these countries have pursued contradictory Internet policies, writes IFEX.
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