Freedom House launched its the 2012 Freedom on the Net report in Brussels this week, an appropriate moment given the rising global debate about free expression sparked by a YouTube video that ridicules Islam. The report makes for chilling reading. Online censorship is growing and attacks on bloggers and online critics are mounting. In 19 out of 47 countries Freedom House examined, “restrictions on Internet freedom in many countries have continued to grow.” Toomas Hendrik Ilves . In Brussels, European Parliamentarian Marietje Schaake , the rapporteur on digital freedom, used the occasion to call on Europe to step up its defense of Internet liberties, in particular, by heading off attempts by governments to exert control through the International Telecommunications Union . Posted by Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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