April 18, 2013 12:15 pm PDT
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Internet penetration is never correlated with increasing power to dictators, and is usually correlated with increased freedom
Philip N Howard wonders if there are any countries that have, on balanced, suffered as a result of the coming of the Internet -- say, because improved networks created so many opportunities for dictators to spy on dissidents that it swamped any free speech/free association benefits that the Internet delivered. So he scatter-plotted PolityIVs democratization [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MEdrhRD3Eow/story01.htm
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