Key Internet Controls 2020
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 2019 to May 2020.
Key
Yes No
2020
| 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
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Argentina |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Armenia |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Australia |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Azerbaijan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Bahrain |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Bangladesh |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Belarus |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Brazil |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Cambodia |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Canada |
|
0 | |||||||||
| China |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 |
| Colombia |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Cuba |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Ecuador |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Egypt |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Estonia |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Ethiopia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| France |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Georgia |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Germany |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Hungary |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Iceland |
|
0 | |||||||||
| India |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Indonesia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Iran |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Italy |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| Japan |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Jordan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Kazakhstan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Kenya |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Kyrgyzstan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Lebanon |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Libya |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Malawi |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Malaysia |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Mexico |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Morocco |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Myanmar |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Nigeria |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Pakistan |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | ||
| Philippines |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| Russia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Rwanda |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Saudi Arabia |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Singapore |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| South Africa |
|
X | 1 | ||||||||
| South Korea |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Sri Lanka |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Sudan |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| Syria |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Thailand |
|
X | X | X | X | X | 5 | ||||
| The Gambia |
|
0 | |||||||||
| Tunisia |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Turkey |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| Uganda |
|
X | X | 2 | |||||||
| Ukraine |
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
|
United Arab Emirates
|
|
X | X | X | X | X | X | 6 | |||
| United Kingdom |
|
0 | |||||||||
| United States |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| 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 | X | X | X | 8 | |
| Zambia |
|
X | X | X | 3 | ||||||
| Zimbabwe |
|
X | X | X | X | 4 | |||||
| June 2019-May 2020 coverage period | 17 | 35 | 22 | 39 | 19 | 10 | 49 | 32 | 38 |