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Authoritarian regimes in most cases maintain power over their population by controlling media 100%, they don't actually put shackles on their people, only on th

Authoritarian regimes in most cases maintain power over their population by controlling media 100%, they don't actually put shackles on their people, only on the few ones who see through it. If you are able to break their narrative then the dictatorship has no other way than using massive force to maintain control, in which case everybody will know from now on that they are being enslaved and this will have an effect in the future. (citizens will be less cooperative in a non offending way)

dogma1138 10y ago
That's only partially the case, authoritarian regiems are also very good at indoctrinating their population which means that it's near impossible to break through, just look at N. Korea. They are also as you said control the media which means you control the narrative, wikileaks would have 0 impact if the media would not have picked their leaks up and run with them, the amount of people who access that site and read the information directly is negligible. Also since the regiems not only control the media but also the medium e.g. the internet good luck at breaking through, if it's truly a walled garden state there is very little you can actually do, and with the right amount of force and preemptive control over the narrative even a full external media blitz won't really help you. There is a difference between transparency and abuse, wikileaks is walking a very thin line, and it has passed it several times by refusing the curate information which does not score them any points. Assange's crusade against clinton does also not sit well with many people even if they mostly agree with his ideology, his latest interview on Real Time with Bill Maher about a month ago did not score him many points when he confronted Bill about his donations to the the democratic party.

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Authoritarian regimes in most cases maintain power over their population by controlling media 100%, they don't actually put shackles on their people, only on th

by DominikR 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago
That's only partially the case, authoritarian regiems are also very good at indoctrinating their population which means that it's near impossible to break through, just look at N. Korea. They are also as you said control the media which means you control the narrative, wikileaks would have 0 impact if the media would not have picked their leaks up and run with them, the amount of people who access that site and read the information directly is negligible. Also since the regiems not only control the media but also the medium e.g. the internet good luck at breaking through, if it's truly a walled garden state there is very little you can actually do, and with the right amount of force and preemptive control over the narrative even a full external media blitz won't really help you. There is a difference between transparency and abuse, wikileaks is walking a very thin line, and it has passed it several times by refusing the curate information which does not score them any points. Assange's crusade against clinton does also not sit well with many people even if they mostly agree with his ideology, his latest interview on Real Time with Bill Maher about a month ago did not score him many points when he confronted Bill about his donations to the the democratic party.