> Information control is no different from border control. Well, no, it's quite different. A border can be controlled, information cannot. East Germany could

> Information control is no different from border control. Well, no, it's quite different. A border can be controlled, information cannot. East Germany could stop people crossing the border to West Germany (at least, those who weren't willing to take the risk of being shot at). They couldn't stop West German radio stations being broadcast back across the border. Information control isn't anything like border control, because information is permeable to your physical border. You can shoot-to-kill people crossing your borders, but good luck doing that with electromagnetic radiation. At best you can jam it or attempt to control the flow domestically (by, for example, banning radios), but in both cases it's easily circumvented.