Restrictions to limit Internet access on the rise, warns UNESCO

Restrictions to limit Internet access on the rise, warns UNESCO: The United Nations agency which deals with freedom of expression on the Internet today warned that restrictions directly limiting Internet access appear to be on the rise, and called on governments to implement policies that facilitate broadband connectivity instead of putting up barriers particularly during political developments.

"Knowledge and ideas today flow in volumes and at speed that we could not have imagined years ago, "regardless of frontier" and at low cost," the Assistant Director-General for Communication of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Janis Karklins, told participants at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). "However, barriers to this flow still exist, and new ones continue to emerge."

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