Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World

The Internet is a critical tool for communication and knowledge acquisition in societies across the globe. Unfortunately, its use has become a battlefield for governments, corporations, and individuals to censor speech and access to information. In this paper, we present research into the use of soc...

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Main Authors: Nekrasov, Michael (Author), Parks, Lisa (Author), Belding, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-01-05T23:01:22Z.
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