Shutting down a physical protest is easy, just apply pepper spray liberaly and arrest anyone that can’t run away. Shutting down online protests with democratic overtures is an entirely different matter.
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Dictators Have Good Reason to Fear the Internet [Book Excerpt]
Posted on 17 February 2012
Tags: book excerpt, citizenship, consent of the networked, dictators, down-online, excerpt, internet, none-solid, pepper spray, reason, tweet, world, world-very
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