15 Nations With Highest Internet Freedom


#4 Australia:

Access to the online content is far-reaching with citizens able to explore all political and social issues in the country and voice their concerns about them through internet. The people can have information like human right violations too, and join the movement against it. As of 2011, Australia had an internet penetration rate of 79 percent, and Australians able to access internet from home, work or on mobile phones.

# 3 Germany:

Germany has high level of internet freedom, media and internet is generally well-respected, and has 73 percent of internet penetration. Though the amount of internet freedom have been challenged in recent years, internet maintained its steady freedom in the country, with most schools providing internet access to their students, mainly dedicated to computer rooms.

However both 2011 and 2012 were characterized by rising mainstream internet issues. The topics like copyright protection, net activism, access blocking, and online surveillance experienced significant attention in federal and state parliaments, news papers and on television.