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Middle East, N. Africa governments tighten Internet clamps

satellite view of Africa and the Middle East

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A study by the OpenNet Initiative, an Internet freedom group comprised of researchers from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and the University of Toronto, finds rising government censorship of online information in most of the 18 countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

Guest: Rob Faris, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society