Amid the cheerleading over recent events in the Middle East, it's easy to forget the more repressive uses of technology. In addition to the rosy narrative celebrating how Facebook and Twitter have enabled freedom movements around the world, we need to confront a more sinister tale: how greedy companies, fostered by Western governments for domestic surveillance needs, have helped suppress them.
Saturday, September 3
Internet Repression
it is widely known of the power that technology played in the arab spring but here the NYT weighs in on the more repressive and sinister side of technology.
