A new report has been published that reveals how free countries are to use the internet. Although there were countries that were not included in the research conducted for the preparation of the report, participants from all continents took place. In the list where countries are scored out of 100 in the field of virtual freedom, Turkey was included in the “not free” category.
Grade-based classes that rate freedom; ‘free’, ‘partly free’ and ‘not free’. In the list of 21 final-class countries, Turkey is among the countries that do not provide freedom on the Internet with 34 points.
Turkey ranked 53rd out of 70 countries
The ‘2021 Freedom on the Internet’ report, published by the US human resources organization Freedom House, scored how much freedom countries allow for the internet. In the ropar, in which evaluations were made under many sub-headings such as access barriers and user rights, countries with a score of 70-100 were placed in the “free” category, those with a score of 40-69 were placed in the “partly free”, and countries with a score of 0-39 were placed in the “not free” category. Turkey is on the “not free” list along with 20 other countries.
Turkey’s internet usage was examined in the report with criteria such as access blocking, content limitation and user rights violations. Turkey, which received 15 points in the “access barrier”, 10 points in the “content limitation” and 9 points in the “user rights violations”, became the 59th country with the freest internet among 70 countries with a total of 34 points. In the area of Internet purchasing power, it ranked 59th. The country with the freest internet was Iceland with 96 points.
The report also mentioned the content types that received the most access bans. According to the data, sites with domain names containing sexually-related keywords are among the most blocked sites. Pages about atheism are blocked for reasons such as “insulting religion”. Pages that may be terrorist organization propaganda were also quickly blocked, while the report also touched upon different factors that negatively affect internet use in Turkey. For example, according to the data, men use the internet the most with a 13% difference in Turkey. Many users have difficulties in accessing the internet due to reasons such as power outages and weak telecommunication infrastructure. The Southeast Anatolian region is one of the regions that have problems in this area.
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