Key Internet Controls 2021
Freedom House documented how governments censor and control the digital sphere. Each colored cell represents at least one occurrence of the cited control during Freedom on the Net’s coverage period of June 2020 to May 2021.
Key
Yes No
2021
| Country | Controls |
Social media platform blocked
|
Websites blocked
|
Internet shutdown
|
Pro-government commentators
|
New censorship law
|
New surveillance law
|
Internet user arrested or imprisoned
|
Internet user physically assaulted
|
Technical attacks
|
Total
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Argentina |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Armenia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Australia |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Azerbaijan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Bahrain |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Bangladesh |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Belarus |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Brazil |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Cambodia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Canada |
|
0 | |||||||||
| China |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 |
| Colombia |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Costa Rica |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Cuba |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Ecuador |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Egypt |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Estonia |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Ethiopia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| France |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Georgia |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Germany |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Ghana |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Hungary |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Iceland |
|
0 | |||||||||
| India |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Indonesia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 |
| Iran |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Iraq |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Italy |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Japan |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Jordan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Kazakhstan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Kenya |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Kyrgyzstan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Lebanon |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Libya |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Malawi |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Malaysia |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Mexico |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Morocco |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Myanmar |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 |
| Nicaragua |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Nigeria |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Pakistan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Philippines |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Russia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Rwanda |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Saudi Arabia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Serbia |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Singapore |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| South Africa |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| South Korea |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Sri Lanka |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Sudan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Taiwan |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Thailand |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| The Gambia |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Tunisia |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Turkey |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Uganda |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Ukraine |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
|
United Arab Emirates
|
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| United Kingdom |
|
0 | |||||||||
| United States |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Uzbekistan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 |
| Venezuela |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Vietnam |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Zambia |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Zimbabwe |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| June 2020-May 2021 coverage period | 21 | 35 | 20 | 47 | 22 | 16 | 56 | 41 | 40 |
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