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A report published by tech.co on Wednesday ranks and categorizes the countries with the highest internet censorship. Among the reports most salient findings:

The data were ranked based the content that citizens can access, the illegality of privacy tools such as virtual private networks, as well as monitoring policies and limitations on freedom of expression.

Turkmenistan was perhaps a surprising top pick for this list, if only for its absence from most world news. Yet it earned its spot at the top for several reasons.

Turkmentelecom, which is government-controlled, is the only internet provider in the country. It has used this chokehold to block access to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Politically motivated disappearances of online publishers are common.

Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced the Tribal Digital Divide Act of 2020 on Tuesday to accelerate the deployment of broadband services to Native American communities.

According to the Federal Communications Commission, less than half of households on tribal lands have access to fixed broadband service. This billattemptsto address that by implementing the following:

Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar expressed some ideas on how to expand broadband access at the Moving America Forward forum in Las Vegas this Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

There are always ways, some of which include creating incentives that would penalize the states for not being more accepting of government-driven public-owned broadband. She also suggested preemption.

A precursor to either of these methods, however, is the collection of a new and accurate broadband map, as a whole bunch of money is going where it shouldnt. Klobuchar related how northern communities in her state of Minnesota which can see Canada from [its] porch have flocked to resorts across the border because of superior broadband.

Some have even switched to Canadian broadband, she mentioned.

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