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What's up everybody? Welcome to Freedom Tech Wrap. I'm your host, Marks, and this is a weekly source

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for news and project updates in the freedom and independent technology space. We live in a highly

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connected world. Freedom Tech lets you decide how you want to connect and where you want your data

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to live. Freedom Tech Wrap is an independent show. If you want to support what we are doing,

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you can send us value through your podcasting 2.0 app. Your support and feedback are greatly

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appreciated. Now, I spent some time this week working in a room with many other founders and

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co-founders in the freedom technology space.

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I just have to say there's a lot of really cool work going on, a lot of really passionate people,

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and I'm extremely excited for some of the tools that are being built and deployed.

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There's a whole ecosystem and a whole foundation upon which more great tools are going to be built

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in the future. So we are at a very exciting time right now in this kind of technology,

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something that started decades ago and is just continuing to accelerate.

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So super stoked, really excited about the future of freedom technology and just the quality and

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caliber of people that are working to solve some of these problems. Okay, let's get into the news.

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First up this week, we have a report out from an organization called Freedom House. So Freedom

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House every year publishes a report that they call Freedom on the Net. And this is actually

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the 14th edition. So they've been doing this for 14 years. And what they do is they do a lot of

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research. And what they do is they look at countries around the world. And they have a rating system

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where they rate how free the citizens are to speak online. And they have all sorts of different

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criteria. In fact, let me pull up some of the criteria here that they rank it on. Let's see,

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they look at obstacles to access. So like infrastructure, economic, political barriers

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for citizens to get access to the internet. Then they have limits on content,

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they look at the legal regulations on the content and some of the filtering and blocking

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that can happen on websites. And lastly, they look at violations of user rights.

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So they actually look at legal protections and restrictions on freedom of expression,

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surveillance, and privacy, which privacy is very important. So they bundle these all up,

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and they have a score of zero to 100. So if a country falls between 100 to 70, they're considered

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free. If it's 69 to 40, they're partly free, and then 39 down the line, they're considered free.

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And then they have this whole long questionnaire that they do. So some key findings from here,

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they have found that for the 14th consecutive year, basically every year this report has been done,

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that internet freedom globally is on a decline. They say protections for human rights online

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diminished in 27 of 72 countries covered by freedom on the net, with 18 earning improvements.

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And then they talk about free expression online was imperiled by

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civil rights and the United States. So they have a score of 70 to 40, and then they have a score of

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So they have a score of 70 to 40, and then they have a score of 70 to 40.

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So they have a score of 70 to 40, and then they have a score of 70 to 40.

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So they have a score of 70 to 40.

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