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IRAN: Web Pries Lid Of Censorship. ?At one time, authoritarian regimes could draw a shroud around ?

By Glenn Reynolds

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IRAN: Web Pries Lid Of Censorship. “At one time, authoritarian regimes could draw a shroud around the events in their countries by simply snipping the long-distance phone lines and restricting a few foreigners. But this is the new arena of censorship in the 21st century, a world where cellphone cameras, Twitter accounts and all the trappings of the World Wide Web have changed the ancient calculus of how much power governments actually have to sequester their nations from the eyes of the world and make it difficult for their own people to gather, dissent and rebel.” Somebody should write a book about this phenomenon and what it means.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).

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