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Instead of undermining repressive regimes, the internet might strengthen them

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SURVEY: THE INTERNET SOCIETY

Caught in the net

Jan 23rd 2003

From The Economist print edition

Instead of undermining repressive regimes, the internet might strengthen them

IF THE internet will force difficult changes on democracies by handing power to individual citizens, it seems reasonable to believe that it will have a devastating impact on dictatorships. But it is not impossible that instead of undermining repressive regimes, the internet could become the most effective tool of social control that autocratic rulers have ever wielded.

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