Cuba USA
Freedom House's annual report Freedom on the Net 2012 is out. The report ranks nations on Internet freedom, which they compute as a function of obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights. The Cuban country report is on pages 152-163 and Cuba ranks 46th out of the 47 nations surveyed.
The following are the actions Freedom House looks for. Those marked with a (C) are practiced in Cuba.
The following figures establish some context. This world map shows the nations that Freedom House rates as not free, somewhat free and free.
Here we see all of the not free nations. Cuba is next to last, leading only Iran.
Part of the problem in Cuba is very low Internet penetration in homes, as shown below.
Bear in mind that the correlation we see here between Internet penetration and the index of freedom does not establish causality -- in fact the two variables reinforce each other.
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Cuba USA
Freedom House report on Internet freedom in Cuba
Freedom House's annual report Freedom on the Net 2012 is out. The report ranks nations on Internet freedom, which they compute as a function of obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights. The Cuban country report is on pages 152-163 and Cuba ranks 46th out of the 47 nations surveyed.
The following are the actions Freedom House looks for. Those marked with a (C) are practiced in Cuba.
- Web 2.0 blocked (C)
- Notable political blocking (C)
- Localized or nationwide ICT shut down
- Pro-government commentators manipulate online discussions (C)
- New law /regulation increasing censorship or punishment passed
- New law /regulation increasing surveillance or restricting anonymity
- Blogger/ICT user arrested for political or social writings (C)
- Blogger/ICT user physically attacked or killed (C)
- Technical attacks against government critics
The following figures establish some context. This world map shows the nations that Freedom House rates as not free, somewhat free and free.
Here we see all of the not free nations. Cuba is next to last, leading only Iran.
Part of the problem in Cuba is very low Internet penetration in homes, as shown below.
Bear in mind that the correlation we see here between Internet penetration and the index of freedom does not establish causality -- in fact the two variables reinforce each other.
- Freedom House Report On Internet Freedom 2015: Cuba Passes Ethiopia, But Remains "unfree"
Freedom House reported on 65 nations (88% of the world population) in their 2015 Freedom on the Net report, which came out this week. Cuba ranked 61st this year -- only four nations -- Ethiopia, Iran, Syria and China were less free than Cuba. The next...
- The Cuban Internet In Context
The Cuban Internet is minimal and unfree -- far worse than one would expect in a nation with a relatively high UNDP Human development index. In the last week or so I've seen a spate of articles (for example this one) pointing out that only a few,...
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The Cuban National Statistics Office reports over one million computers and twice as many .CU domain names as the previous year. The Cuban National Statistics Office has released their 2014 Information and Communication Technology report. Here are the...
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Freedom House issues an annual report on freedom on the Internet. This year they rated 60 nations and Iran was the only nation rated as less free than Cuba. One of the factors they consider in their ranking is the use of pro-government commentators to...
- Updated Cuban Ict Statistics
Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONE) released their annual report on Information and Communication Technology in June, 2012. The Internet-related statistics shown here indicate relatively little change. let’s consider each of...