{"id":356362,"date":"2010-02-21T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22915"},"modified":"2010-02-21T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T17:13:03","slug":"the-digital-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/356362","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703983004575073911147404540.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_LeadStoryNA\">WSJ<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/PT-AN872_CovJum_F_20100219174325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road  to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a  very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of  the techno-utopia.<\/p>\n<p>A storm of protest hit Google last week over Buzz, its new social  networking service, because of user concerns about the inadvertent  exposure of their data. Internet users in Iran, however, were spared  such trouble. It&#8217;s not because Google took extra care in protecting  their identities\u2014they didn&#8217;t\u2014but because the Iranian authorities decided  to ban Gmail, Google&#8217;s popular email service, and replace it with a  national email system that would be run by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Such paradoxes abound in the Islamic Republic&#8217;s complex relationship  with the Internet. As the Iranian police were cracking down&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WSJ: It&#8217;s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. A storm of protest hit Google last week over Buzz, its new social networking service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}