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Paid progovernment commentators manipulate online discussions: Already evident in a number of countries assessed in the previous edition of Freedom of the Net, the phenomenon of paid progovernment commentators has spread in the past two years, appearing in 22 of the 60 countries examined in this study. [...] In 35 of the 60 countries examined in Freedom on the Net 2013, the government has either obtained more sophisticated technology to conduct surveillance, increased the scope and In 35 of the 60 countries number of people monitored, or passed a new law giving it examined, the government has greater monitoring authority. [...] Angola is also looking to connect to the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) cable and the West Africa Cable System (WACS) in the future, in addition to establishing a submarine cable between Northeastern Brazil and Luanda to reduce the bandwidth costs associated with the distance that internet traffic currently has to travel from Europe and the United States.13 According to the telecoms regulator, the A. [...] Much of the content on the sites appeared to be personal in nature and irrelevant to both public policy and the exposition of malfeasance and corruption.48 ISPs complied with the court order and blocked access to the IP addresses of the two pages, effectively blocking the entire Blogger platform, including over one million blogs not specified in the judicial order. [...] At the same time, considering that the average public utilities bill can vary from $50 to $100 in the summer and $100 to $200 in the winter, the cost of internet access is affordable for the majority of the population, whose average income is approximately $600 per month.