Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom

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Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom
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Most people in countries with unrestricted Internet access take it for granted, forgetting that many countries around the world have censored, limited or ** Internet access — even though it's a human right (http://mashable.com/2012/07/06/internet-human-right/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), according to the United Nations.

This doesn't mean citizens don't understand and advocate for their right, though. Twitter was blocked in Turkey (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on Thursday, after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to "eradicate" the platform — often k**wn to help give voices to the voiceless — for spreading what he called false information. But Twitter users in Turkey are getting around the ban through a variety of solutions (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and criticizing it via tweets. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/internet-freedom-chart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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