China Leads the Way in Internet Censorship—and Others are Catching on

A new report on Internet freedom shows that governments around the world can’t resist meddling with the online lives of their citizens—with the Chinese regime leading the way.
China Leads the Way in Internet Censorship—and Others are Catching on
A laptop computer screen in Beijing shows the homepage of Google.cn, Google Inc. accused Chinese authorities on Monday of interfering with its Gmail service, just as China's own Jasmine Revolution is picking up steam. Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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A computer screen in Beijing shows the homepage of Google.cn. 37 countries were examined in a new report on Internet freedom which shows that 15 of them are engaged in 'substantial blocking' of political websites with China being the vanguard of control and surveillance. (Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images)

Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.