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)
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- Subject: Re: <nettime> John Harris: Is India the frontline in big tech’s assault on democracy? (Guardian)
- From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 07:10:44 -0700
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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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