{"id":2919,"date":"2021-09-22T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/internet-freedom-on-the-decline-in-us-and-globally-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:40:10","slug":"internet-freedom-on-the-decline-in-us-and-globally-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/internet-freedom-on-the-decline-in-us-and-globally-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet freedom on the decline in US and globally, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study cited a lack of regulation in the domestic tech industry, and the rise of authoritarian agencies abroad<\/p>\n<p>Online freedom is continuing to decline globally, according to a new study, with governments increasingly cracking down on user speech and misinformation on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>The report from <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/about-us\">Freedom House<\/a>, a Washington DC-based democracy advocacy group, found internet freedom declined for the fifth year in a row in the US and the 11th year internationally \u2013 for two distinct reasons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/21\/internet-freedom-decline-free-speech-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e4a747513763b99d20920c0644febdee0162cf9c\/0_0_2932_1759\/master\/2932.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=44f4d37bc336553ea8ba29286d895fd7\" title=\"Internet freedom on the decline in US and globally, study finds\" \/>The study cited a lack of regulation in the domestic tech industry, and the rise of authoritarian agencies abroad<br \/>\nOnline freedom is continuing to decline globally, according to a new study, with governments increasingly cracking down on user speech and misinformation on the rise.<br \/>\nThe report from Freedom House, a Washington DC-based democracy advocacy group, found internet freedom declined for the fifth year in a row in the US and the 11th year internationally \u2013 for two distinct reasons. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study cited a lack of regulation in the domestic tech industry, and the rise of authoritarian agencies abroad Online freedom is continuing to decline globally, according to a new study, with governments increasingly cracking down on user speech and misinformation on the rise. The report from Freedom House, a Washington DC-based democracy advocacy group, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/internet-freedom-on-the-decline-in-us-and-globally-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet freedom on the decline in US and globally, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}