{"id":314,"date":"2020-08-18T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:36:23","slug":"the-pandemic-effect-on-freedom-as-the-remaining-46-get-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/2020\/08\/18\/the-pandemic-effect-on-freedom-as-the-remaining-46-get-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The pandemic effect on Freedom whilst 46% of the World is still offline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in November 2019, the release on the same day of two flagship reports on the Internet had prompted me to write an article under the title \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circleid.com\/posts\/20200124_connecting_the_next_46_percent_time_to_pick_the_good_from_the_bad\/\">Connecting the next 46%: Time to pick the Good from the Bad and the Ugly<\/a>\u201d. I was then prudently asking whether &#8216;<em><strong>the more we connect the world, the less free it becomes?<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who would have known that a <strong>pandemic<\/strong> would erupt few months later unveiling different perspectives in assessing <strong>that very same question<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November 2019, the release on the same day of two flagship reports on the Internet had prompted me to write an article under the title \u2018Connecting the next 46%: Time to pick the Good from the Bad and the Ugly\u201d. I was then prudently asking whether &#8216;the more we connect the world, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/2020\/08\/18\/the-pandemic-effect-on-freedom-as-the-remaining-46-get-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The pandemic effect on Freedom whilst 46% of the World is still offline&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The pandemic effect on Freedom whilst 46% of the World is still offline - Kitaw Yayehyirad KITAW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/2020\/08\/18\/the-pandemic-effect-on-freedom-as-the-remaining-46-get-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The pandemic effect on Freedom whilst 46% of the World is still offline - Kitaw Yayehyirad KITAW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in November 2019, the release on the same day of two flagship reports on the Internet had prompted me to write an article under the title \u2018Connecting the next 46%: Time to pick the Good from the Bad and the Ugly\u201d. 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