Freedom Of The Press: How Much Do You Know?

The Chinese internet looks quite different other countries and has it's own forms of popular search engines and social media.

If a governing body believe unnecessary mass chaos may ensure following information reveal, they may keep it secret until the problem is solved.

262 journalists were recorded in jail in 2017. China, Turkey and Egypt accounting for over half.

first amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Finland and Norway also rank in the top 6 of most press freedom.

John Milton was a huge activist for freedom of press and believed people were capable of using logic and reason to make proper choices if they were presented with all the information.

The Author is protecting their work with a copyright or exercising their freedom of press by not allowing comments. However any group censoring another or state groups owning public communication channels are examples of freedom being infringed upon.

The Propaganda Ministry ordered which stories would be ran or suppressed.

According the Reporters without Borders, 1/3 of people live in areas without democratic freedoms that are controlled by propaganda.

While all of these are great because more people are able to share their opinions more freely and easily, it has also because harder for the government to combat hate-speech and locate possible threats to public security when people hide behind computer screens.