TWO studies from Proxyrack and Freedom House discussed internet freedom in the Philippines for 2022. According to Proxyrack, the Philippines is one of the countries with the most internet freedoms in the world, but this was based on the Internet Freedom Score given by the Freedom House. However, Freedom on the Net 2022 survey revealed that the Internet Freedom Score in the Philippines is 65/100 or is labeled as partly free.
Aside from culling the data on internet freedom, the team at Proxyrack analyzed censorship, the number of people online per 100,000, and social media restrictions to reveal the most and least internet-restricted countries. The Philippines ranked among the top 10 least restricted countries, with an internet restriction score of 5.13/10. The total score (out of 11) for each country accounted for factors such as the banning and restriction of torrents, pornography, political media, social media, VPNs, and messaging and VoIP apps according to Comparitech. For comparison, China has the most internet restrictions, as the Chinese government has banned its citizens from western social media sites, giving it one of the lowest scores for the factor. They restricted political media on the internet, giving the highest internet censorship score. The UK landed on the top spot as the country with the most internet freedom, scoring the lowest, 0 out of 10.
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