The internet is getting less free year by year with governments passing more laws to restrict online speech and increase monitoring of users.
That's according to New York-based Freedom House which on Friday published its fifth annual study of internet freedom around the globe.
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Which is the most free country? Iceland, apparently, with a satisfying 6 points, followed by Estonia (which this week announced it would offer e-citizenship) with 8 points. Canada comes next with 15, then Australia and Germany are tied with 17 points a piece. And as for the Home of Freedom™? The United States comes sixth with 19 points.
We need a press that teaches the young to be agents of people, not power.
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The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Our hero. Dr. Dr. as we call him (PhD and MD) has for decades been the lone voice in the wilderness trying to bring DoD into the 21st Century with open source tools that could be shared with non-military elements that control 80% of the relevant foreign language and ground truth information not available via closed sources and closed communications.