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Beijing is using the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as a justification to expand and intensify its already gargantuan internet surveillance systems , according to a report by Freedom House. In its annual Freedom of the Net report, which details the state of digital surveillance in over 60 countries, the nonprofit ranked China last with a score of 10 out of 100 . This is the sixth consecutive year in which the country was crowned as the “worst abuser of internet freedom†in the world. “This pandemic is normalizing the sort of digital authoritarianism that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has...
