[governance] US 2nd on Internet Freedom

[Robert Guerra]

Paul & Tapani,

The larger question is how verifiable, objective and replicable the results of the report are - or are not. 
 
While the methodology and aggregate scores are public,  the individual scores aren't released. There is a bit of subjective basis - much more so then the authors of the report care to mention.

For example, the scores for the UK & US, in my opinion are far higher then would be expected given the serious violations of privacy, widespread surveillance and over criminalization of "computer crimes" that exists in the two countries. 

It would be interesting to have an independent 3rd party use the same methodology and see if the same scores are achieved. Perhaps something that could be crowd-sourced.The results of such an independent review would provide quite constructive feedback not just to the report authors, but to the larger community that is involved in the area of digital rights metrics and methodologies.


regards

Robert


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On 2013-01-17, at 7:47 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> On Jan 17 07:35, Paul Lehto (lehto.paul at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> no notable arrests of bloggers [in the USA qualifies the USA as second
>>> most friendly country to the Internet]
> 
>> Congratulations to Estonia, but the USA is ranked too high at
>> second, and there are so many countries in Africa, South America and
>> Asia (and even Canada) for which the study's graphic says the study
>> has "no data." What?
> 
> The report does not claim to cover all countries or even attempt to,
> rather it's a deliberately selective sample. The aim was to be
> thorough with a limited set of countries rather than covering
> as many countries as possible.
> 
> So it does not claim Estonia is the most Internet-friendly country
> in the world, or USA as the second - those rankings are only among
> the sample studied.
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
> 
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