Only four countries, including Japan, do not monitor or interfere with the Internet | Nikkei Book Plus Freedom House
The countries with the highest scores, or “freedom of the net,” were Iceland (95 points), Estonia (93 points), Costa Rica (88 points), and Canada (87 points). This is followed by Taiwan and Canada (79 points), United Kingdom (78 points), Georgia (77 points), Germany and Japan (76 points), Australia, France, and United States of America (75 points), leaving Japan in 8th place in the world. Japan is listed as one of the few countries, along with Canada, Costa Rica, and Iceland, that do not engage in acts of surveillance interference.
tetsutalow I think education is needed in this area. The digital natives who are accustomed to the existence of filtering software by high school have little skin in the game as to whether it was surveillance by whom. Some students believe it was state surveillance.
It’s true, in my generation, we haven’t experienced content filtering due to being underage.
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