[governance] US 2nd on Internet Freedom

[Riaz K Tayob]

Fair incisive point.

But one can also make rough determinations from political positioning, 
kinda like single rooters used to do, despite the technical capability...


On 2013/01/17 05:24 PM, Robert Guerra wrote:
> Guru,
>
> Just because Freedom House gets its funding for the report from the US 
> State Department (as well as other foreign govts may I add) isn't , I 
> believe, sufficient grounds to summarily dismiss the report findings.
>
> If you or others have issues with the report, then the most strategic 
> way to challenge the findings is with actual data. For instance, it 
> would be interesting to see if a 3rd party using their same 
> methodology would achieve the same aggregate scores for the countries 
> surveyed.
>
> My personal view is that  the scores for the US & UK would, in an 
> independent review, would be far lower - indicating a far more 
> contested digital rights environment.
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
>

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