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September 12, 2016 07:16 am PDT
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Autocratic regimes systematically deny internet access to opposition ethnic groups
In Digital discrimination: Political bias in Internet service provision across ethnic groups (Sci-hub mirror), a new paper in Science, political scientists from the Universityof Konstanz and elsewhere document the practice of "ethnic favoritism" in internet provision, through which autocratic regimes use telcoms policies to discriminate against opposition groups. (more…)
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