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    This document is the abstract for an honors paper that examines the relationship between internet censorship and democracy. The paper intends to prove that countries with higher levels of internet filtering, as rated by the OpenNet Initiative, tend to have lower quality democracies, as measured by organizations like Freedom House. The OpenNet Initiative rates state filtering of the internet across four categories and degrees of filtering, from pervasive to no evidence. The paper uses these ratings to analyze the link between censorship and democracy.

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    Kristin Kopach

    POS 368 - Honors Paper


    November 11, 2010

    Internet Censorship and the Quality of Democracy

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    The right to free speech and freedom of the press are staples in in the western ideal of

    democracy. In a more broad sense, the ideas of the amount of political rights and civil liberties

    can be used as a measure. This is how the organization Freedom House rates the countries of the

    world1. The internet has undoubtedly become a vehicle for free expression, yet there are some

    countries which chose to stifle its citizens’ access to the internet. The OpenNet Initiative rates

    State filtering in 4 categories: political, social, conflict/security and internet tools. It then rates the

    amount of filtering from pervasive filtering to no evidence of filtering2. In this paper, I intend to

    prove a link between the amount of internet filtering and the quality of democracy, specifically

    that the higher the amount of filtering there is in a country, the lower quality of democracy that

    country has.

    1 Freedom House. Methodology. Freedom in the World 2010 Edition. 2010. 11 November 2010.
    ! <http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=351&ana_page=363&year=2010>.
    2 OpenNet Initiative. Country Profiles. Research. 2010. 11 November 2010.
    ! <http://opennet.net/research/profiles>.

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