"But governments also want to control Big Tech firms - they see them as being too powerful, too influential," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 'DRACONIAN' TIMEFRAME More than three-quarters of the world's over 4.5 billion internet users live in countries where authorities punish online expression, according to Freedom House, which ranked China as having the worst environment for internet freedom. Elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia enacted rules this year to make social media platforms remove content deemed unlawful or that "disturbs public order" within four hours if considered urgent, and 24 hours if not.