The implications of States’ surveillance of communications on the exercise of the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion and expression 2013, para. 44
Párrafo
Paragraph text
Advances in technology have not only facilitated interception of and access to communications in specific cases, but have also enabled States to conduct widespread, even nationwide, filtering of online activity. In many countries, Internet filtering is conducted under the guise of maintaining social harmony or eradicating hate speech, but is in fact used to eradicate dissent, criticism or activism.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Personas afectadas
All
Año
2013
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/40, para. 44.