https://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Medium_for_Dissidence&feed=atom&action=historyMedium for Dissidence - Revision history2024-03-28T23:14:51ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.37.0https://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Medium_for_Dissidence&diff=12472&oldid=prevKelly Pender at 14:44, 25 November 20042004-11-25T14:44:39Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Description:==<br />
The Internet has become a means for citizens of closed countries to have contact with external ideas, even when officially prohibited by their governments.<br />
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==Enablers:==<br />
- Incompetence of governments to crack down<br />
- Governments realize futility of cracking down on Internet access<br />
- Ways around Internet filters (e.g. software programs)<br />
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==Inhibitors:==<br />
- Laws governing Internet access<br />
- Penalties for accessing forbidden information (e.g. prison)<br />
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==Paradigms:==<br />
Countries that control what their citizens can access when surfing the Internet include: Syria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran.<br />
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The internet is having a profound impact on closed societies as a forum for minority and dissident views. Though long shut in by UN economic sanctions, and by censorship of its press, at least a fifth of Libya's 5m people now use the internet. Although Syria's police are mean to political dissidents, they are nice to software pirates. For just a dollar, you can buy a program off the streets to cover your internet tracks—and safely get a look at all the forbidden stuff. <br />
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The Chinese government has decided to pay more attention to the internet. Many analysts believe that internet outcries last year shaped the government's response to incidents.<br />
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==Web Resources:==<br />
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Watch Out: Arabs and the Internet from the Economist<br />
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_ID=2910128&subjectid=348963<br />
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Road Rage, and Web Rage: China from the Economist<br />
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_ID=2388977&subjectid=348963</div>Kelly Pender