Enemies of the Internet
Reporters without Borders has released its list of countries that are enemies of the Internet. I’ve added on the nature of the Government and/or Head of State:
- Bahrain – monarchy
- Belarus – presidential republic, president is former communist now statist
- Burma – presidential republic, pro-military junta
- China – Marxist-Leninist single-party state (officially)
- Cuba – republic communist state
- Iran – Islamic republic
- North Korea – Juche (Marxist-Leninist) unitary single-party state,
- Saudi Arabia – Islamic absolute monarchy
- Syria – Baathist single party state, Arab Socialist Baath Party
- Turkmenistan – presidential republic, single party state, former communist
- Uzbekistan – presidential republic, former communist
- Vietnam – Marxist/Leninist single-party state
My conclusions are that enemies of the Internet tend to be communists, former communists, Islamists and absolute monarchs.