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2020 was the 10th consecutive year of decline in internet freedom and this is that a time when of in dimmick has really accelerated our reliance on digital technologies so what we found is that governments around the world have imposed broader share chance to expression and access to information political leaders are using the pandemic to scapegoat ethnic and religious groups since around favorable news and arrest critics so you know in at least $45.00 of the countries that we study we found that activists journalists and members of the public were arrested or charged with criminal offense says their speech relating to the 19 and then we found the governments of at least $28.00 countries censored websites or social media posts which is the press and favor hurl healthiest mistakes and corruption allegations and then we also found that there's been increased surveillance around the world they've been using the pandemic as a cover to expand data collection i mean we also on the other side see a lot of protests small protest against corona virus. i mean how do you differentiate between authoriti