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Criticism: Digital Democracy

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GOOGLIST REALISM: The Google-China saga and the free-information regimes as a new site of cultural imperialism and moral tensions - culturalbytes - Tricia Wang. The Great Internet Freedom Bluff of Digital Imperialism: Thoughts on Cyber Diplomacy, Cargo Cult Digital Activism... and Haystack - culturalbytes. The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital activism ? sami ben gharbia.

How US sanctions made Haystack. There seems to be no end to the Haystack Affair.

How US sanctions made Haystack

Who knew that this whole "Internet freedom" business was so ugly? Perhaps, it comes with the location: there must be a reason why Washington beats any other city in the world in terms of how many/how often its residents search for that very term on Google. I'm glad that The Economist picked it up, along with many others. I'm still waiting for The Guardian to do something about their akward award to Austin Heap.