"Dominant firms can more easily manipulate these markets," he wrote.
The idea that you can easily manipulate the light, and where you point it, is fantastic.
Russian democracy depends in part on maintaining widely accessible sources of public information that the Kremlin cannot easily manipulate or silence.
Some argue that a corrupt prime minister can so easily manipulate the system that the ultimate sanction of removal by the president remains justified.
In recent weeks, the critics have demanded the ouster of Energy Minister Viktor I. Kalyuzhny, who they say has imposed new production quotas and tariffs that insiders can easily manipulate.
And yet he has invited me into the office (after six months' worth of emails, it's true), and shows me things that if I was a different sort of journalist I could so easily manipulate and exploit.
While Limbaugh is not opposed in principle to better jobs figures, it just doesn't seem fair to him that President Obama might benefit from a lower jobless rate or from unemployment statistics that his administration could so easily manipulate.
And it has an expanding menu of photo apps, well beyond the landscape and panoramic settings on a point-and-shoot, that can be used to easily manipulate the images.
The fact that the researchers had to do such work to find out what's going on the app means that someone could easily manipulate the app, the researchers argue, since the algorithm that controls the process is mysterious.
"These observers believe that Correa may have wanted to have an ENP chief whom he could easily manipulate," said Ms. Hodges, using the initials for the Ecuadorean National Police.
But what happens when governments and corporations face off in countries where courts and journalists are much more vulnerable to state pressure and where political officials can more easily manipulate public opinion?
