Morlock Elloi on Wed, 22 May 2019 16:14:23 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> John Harris: Is India the frontline in big tech’s assault on democracy? (Guardian)


It seems that a strong state (ie. US) can effectively use Internet to homogenize the population into desired directions, while the weaker states suffer from its divisive effects. Which makes it effective weapon, like democracy.



On 5/22/19, 02:31, Carsten Agger wrote:
The author is complaining that "encryption would render everything
conveniently impenetrable"; whether that is for the government or the
platform itself is immaterial.
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