Sign me up Comrade!

It was only on re-reading my recent posting called “Ex-communist rogue backwater?” that I was reminded of an article I read recently about the dark side of internet freedom. The article essentially said that the internet was not always a force for promoting democracy, and that authoritarian regimes could also use the internet for more sinister ends e.g. China in seeking to pacify the masses (much in the same way as the East Germans did with allowing western TV shows to be broadcast in the evenings before the wall came down in 1989), or even Russia’s young internet advisors to the government. A good point indeed that is easily overlooked. I enjoyed the article but I hadn’t expected to have first-hand experience of it so quickly! http://www.economist.com/node/17848401?story_id=17848401