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For big business and less repressive governments, the alternative of simply crowding out your opposition online must seem a far more attractive prospect.
Valery V. Kovbasyuk, the editor of an opposition online newspaper called Inaya Gazeta, says the municipal government is not being forthright about the risks.
The Ethiopian Review, an opposition online journal based in Washington, reported this month that the prime minister's wife and her associates were attempting to force partnerships with Gebrselassie on a new hotel that he had built and on other real estate ventures.
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The idea of any seemingly arbitrary authority standing in the way of all that can easily become an affront – and at the same time, your means of communication offers you a method of opposition and resistance: online, in the real world, or both.
This kind of stuff, the paradigmatic oppositions – online and print, old and new, whatever – persist even though they are thoroughly ahistorical and don't really make any kind of sense.
But the fiercest opposition was online.
The government, however, appeared to restrict the opposition's online presence on Sunday.
In what Mr. Akunin considers a "very important" development, about 80,000 members of the Russian opposition went online last month to vote for a "coordinating council".
It said that an entire floor of the ministry, staffed largely by Cubans, was devoted to tracking and hacking into opposition activists' online activities.
But the plan has ignited opposition from online advocacy groups and industry specialists who say it would slow browsing speeds and do little to block undesirable content.
The story goes that, shortly after visiting Alibaba's offices and seeing Taobao, Meg Whitman, eBay's boss, bought Skype, an internet-telephony start-up, for its instant-messaging.Alibaba has also outflanked the opposition in online payments.
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