Their compassion did not reflect the general fear of religion in our world, namely its use as a tool by oppressive tyrants to force values, practices and dogmas onto others.
"[T]he technologies of internet repression, monitoring and control continue to advance and spread as the tools that oppressive governments use to restrict internet access and to track citizen online activities grow more sophisticated.
One of our most valuable foreign policy tools against oppressive regimes is simply telling the enslaved people the truth about their rulers and the alternatives that exist.
Attempts to depict protections vital to our democracy as constraining the exercise of free speech or the tool of an oppressive government must be rejected.
To HT, Australia's national anthem and democratic values are tools of an oppressive campaign of "forced assimilation".
The libertarians' enemy was the CIA, the FBI, the military, the police--all of which were regarded as tools of an oppressive state, a state that had to be smashed so that the people could be free.
By and large, dress codes remain one of the dreariest quandaries of business culture: They can make an employer seem cartoonishly oppressive, but they persist as a tool for officially addressing workers whose sartorial decisions violate what seem (to managers) like obvious office norms.
The expansion of the Internet in recent years has rendered this technology necessary to the day-to-day lives of people throughout China and the world, and that dependence has become a significant tool of power for oppressive governments.
Here, Morozov is as wrong as he could possibly be: if you want to develop secure tools to allow dissidents to communicate beneath the noses of oppressive regimes, you must widely publish the workings of these tools and revise them frequently as your peers identify new vulnerabilities in them.
Tor was funded by the US government as a communications tool to be used by dissidents in oppressive countries, but it has increasingly drawn ire from US spies who are frustrated by how difficult it is to monitor the platform's users.
