Repression 2.0 / Adam B Kushner
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Newsweek April 14, 2008, pp.24-27Summary: Totalitarian states have realized that they cannot restrict or monitor everything that their citizens try to access on the internet. Instead they spread the fear that authorities might be watching, using new technology to apply old style scare tactics. The nebulous nature of such threats is followed up with show case punitive actions. Once again repressive regimes want their citizens to be afraid.
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Totalitarian states have realized that they cannot restrict or monitor everything that their citizens try to access on the internet. Instead they spread the fear that authorities might be watching, using new technology to apply old style scare tactics. The nebulous nature of such threats is followed up with show case punitive actions. Once again repressive regimes want their citizens to be afraid.
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