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The Internet Is a Tyrant's Friend


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Power to the people or more control to the state?

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As recent events in Egypt and Tunisia so aptly demonstrate, technology is a double-edged sword: while pro-democracy protesters used sites like Facebook to organise, their governments used the same sites to suppress dissent.

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