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The Web Won't Topple Tyranny
An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Kurlantzick of the New Republic online writes that the internet--once heralded as a revolutionary force in politics--has turned out to be surprisingly nonthreatening to dictators and tyrannies. Reminds me of Howard Dean, and the trend to see technological change as a politically progressive force. Maybe this is not such a good idea?"
if the net were such a "liberating", "informing" Force, then milions of people with presumably normal mental capacity wouldn't have been duped into thinking that a dollar for a song off I-Tunes is an acceptable deal. Yee-haw!