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The World Cracks Down on the Internet


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Internet freedom

Credit: Freedom House

In September of last year, Chinese authorities announced an unorthodox standard to help them decide whether to punish people for posting online comments that are false, defamatory, or otherwise harmful: Was a message popular enough to attract five hundred reposts or five thousand views?

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