North Korea Tech » Freedom House http://www.northkoreatech.org Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 South Korea’s Internet only “partly free,” says Freedom House http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:59:53 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5184
Despite living in one of the most wired societies in the world, South Korean Internet users enjoy a “partly free” Internet due to government censorship of content, according to the results of a global survey on Internet freedom. Censorship of content, which includes many websites that carry North Korean content, has shot up in recent…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech DPRK moves up a point, but still worst for press freedom http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/02/dprk-moves-up-a-point-but-still-worst-for-press-freedom/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/02/dprk-moves-up-a-point-but-still-worst-for-press-freedom/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 14:51:34 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4623
DVDs being smuggled into the DPRK have gained the country a point in an annual ranking of press freedom. [Updated, see below] The ranking, by Washington, D.C., -based Freedom House was published on Wednesday and this year gave North Korea a score of 96. That still leaves it at the absolute bottom of the survey,…
 
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North Korea remains the country with the least press freedom in the world, according to the 2011 Press Freedom index from Washington, D.C., based Freedom House. The news isn’t a surprise to anyone that follows North Korea closely. There is a complete lack of independent media, official media is highly censored, and the government actively…
 
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