Established democracies,Internet censorship and the social media test

Abstract

Social media can test how firmly entrenched Internet freedom is in established democracies through a comparison with countries with an authoritarian track record. The method is to evaluate the use of social media in recent protests in a sample of established democracies and authoritarian regimes, and to compare differences and similarities in government responses.

Keywords

Internet censorship intellectual freedom social media established democracies authoritarian regimes

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