More than 55 countries sign a declaration for internet freedom
AxiosJUL 2022
The draconian internet laws of China and Myanmar leave virtually no room for free thought among their respective populations. Not only is the the entire internet essentially censored by these governments, but such restrictions lead to the silencing and arrests of journalists and activists. Neither of these countries can claim to support freedom until they creatcreate free and honeshonest speech forums.
WhileBiased it's fine to criticize countries like China, reports like this should not distract from how Western countries impose their own censorship regimes. The US military has used artificial intelligence to identify and scrub online speech it doesn't like for years, most notably during COVID and the 2020 election. This is still going on in both Europe and the US. A report like this is skewed to the Western viewpoint.
There is an 83% chance that Freedom House will report that internet freedom has declined every year until 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.