Will this Knol satisfy the reference source authoritarian streak so many librarians seem to have?
China is now increasingly the source of authoritarian internet control technology, and countries across the world are backtracking on internet freedom (including the U.S.).
China is now increasingly the source of authoritarian internet control technology, and countries across the world are backtracking on internet freedom (including the U.S .. Sobering, but with so much riding on the openness of the internet, we all need to pay attention and build the kind of future for this technology that we want.
Authoritarian regimes resist open information sources, a free press and freedom of speech and travel.
In power, Putin steered the country in an increasingly authoritarian direction, snuffing out most sources of opposition and dissent.
What is needed, according to an analysis by Freedom House of 67 overthrown dictatorships, is "broad-based, non-violent civic resistance which employs tactics such as boycotts, mass protests, blockades, strikes and civil disobedience to delegitimate authoritarian rulers and erode their sources of support, including the loyalty of armed defenders".
It encourages families to use DNA testing to determine the origins of any remains they find.In mid-August the government launched a website called "Honouring Martyrs" which lets users exchange information about the possible location of fallen family members, a rare example of government-endorsed crowd-sourcing in an authoritarian state that often blocks social-networking websites like Facebook.
As the title suggests, it's a lexicographical film, in which the uses of language and the meaning of words — and the authoritarian implication of the official source of meanings (much dark comedy results from references to the Romanian Academy) — reveal a great deal about a society's political tendencies and assumptions.
Thou shalt not kill Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsBut most authoritarian regimes have allowed the use of the web to grow rapidly, noting that China has found it perfectly possible to embrace the internet while keeping it under close control.
