I have recently been re-reading the historian Barbara Tuchman, who back in 1986 posed this rather topical question: “Are we smarter than our technology?” The eminent historian was worrying about teleprompters, at the time a still relatively new technology that some worried gave undue advantage to dim Ken dolls harboring aspirations of ultimate power and […]
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Cambodian Government Hopes We Just Won’t Notice Sweeping Internet Cafe Circular
Want to visit an Internet cafe in downtown Phnom Penh? If the government has its way, that might not be an option for too much longer. New circular 1815 has been put out by the Cambodian government that states that Internet cafes shouldn’t be allowed to operate within 500 meters of schools or educational institutions. […]
#Censorship Fail: Repressive Governments Are Scared of Social Media – UN Dispatch
Social media is incredibly scary to repressive governments because it is just about impossible to control. Many authoritarian governments even look to incredibly censored North Korea and Eritrea as role models, instead of cautionary tales. Although the US government has announced sanctions against countries that try to block Internet access, international disapproval is unlikely to sway these […]