Governments are able to use Internet to strengthen their control
The governments threatened by increasingly synchronized populations can still avail themselves of Evgeny Morozov’s troika of surveillance, propaganda, and censorship, thus retaining or even strengthening their hold on the populace.
Technology isn't necessarily good for freedom: it can be used as readily to enslave, surveil, and punish as it can to evade, liberate and share.
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Technology: Oppressor or liberator? »Technology: Oppressor or liberator?
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ICT's capacity to spread democracy? »ICT's capacity to spread democracy?
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Cyber-utopianism »Cyber-utopianism
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Cyber-utopians understate the potential of Internet for repression »Cyber-utopians understate the potential of Internet for repression
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Governments are able to use Internet to strengthen their control
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Authoritarian governments will learn how to use Internet for control »Authoritarian governments will learn how to use Internet for control
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Authoritarian regimes will combine technology and use of brute force »Authoritarian regimes will combine technology and use of brute force
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Governments will use Internet mining to identify and arrest activists »Governments will use Internet mining to identify and arrest activists
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Governments will use Internet to launch and propagate false rumors »Governments will use Internet to launch and propagate false rumors
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Authoritarian governments will be able to keep a technological edge »Authoritarian governments will be able to keep a technological edge
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