U.S. boosting support for cyber dissidents creates Dictator's Dilemma
Hillary Clinton: "Governments who have erected barriers to internet freedom, whether they’re technical filters or censorship regimes or attacks on those who exercise their rights to expression and assembly online, will eventually find themselves boxed in. "
"They will face a dictator’s dilemma, and will have to choose between letting the walls fall or paying the price to keep them standing, which means both doubling down on a losing hand by resorting to greater oppression, and enduring the escalating opportunity cost of missing out on the ideas that have been blocked."
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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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ICT strengthens democratic movements »ICT strengthens democratic movements
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ICT encourages remaining dictators to push democratic reforms »ICT encourages remaining dictators to push democratic reforms
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Authoritarian regimes make choices based on cost-benefit analysis  »Authoritarian regimes make choices based on cost-benefit analysis
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U.S. boosting support for cyber dissidents creates Dictator's Dilemma
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China faces Internet "dictator's dilemma" »China faces Internet "dictator's dilemma"
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Governments cannot long pick which freedoms to grant their citizens »Governments cannot long pick which freedoms to grant their citizens
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Second Speech on Internet Freedom, Feb 15, 2011 »Second Speech on Internet Freedom, Feb 15, 2011
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