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i wonder how the Chinese government is viewing the technology empowered protests in Iran. both governments have invested a great deal in censoring all media. an
by siavosh 17y ago
i wonder how the Chinese government is viewing the technology empowered protests in Iran. both governments have invested a great deal in censoring all media. and now with so many tools to go around these filters and essentially create leader-less protest movement, i'd imagine they're more worried than they were the same time last week.
- netsp 17y agoMe too. I think China's approach is censor so long as costs are manageable. Shutting down the internet is too a big deal. I think they are willing to accept a certain leakage. If you are really motivated to learn about Tiananmen, you can. You just can't get at it in a mainstream way. This is fine so long as motivation to access information is relatively low. Iran has just experienced a sharp increase in motivation *One thing to note is that the Iranian regime can feed the President to the lions without breaking stride. It's almost what he's for. The protesters do not seem to be protesting against either the regime or the media controls.