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Report Warns of “China Model” of Net Control

Freedom House released its annual “Freedom on the Net” report on Thursday with the subtitle “The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism.” This process, it argues, is driven in part by Beijing’s determined efforts to export its vision and tools of online control and pervasive surveillance. According to Freedom House, global internet freedom has been in decline for eight consecutive years, and China itself has by some margin the worst internet