Friday, December 08, 2006

State Insecurity

In a post the other day titled Newt Gingrich - Traitor, I noted Newt’s musings on the possibility of more state control of the flow of information over the internet, ostensibly for protecting us poor subjects against terrorists.

The actual reason the state wants more control of the information flow over the internet is fear, and I think the following words, spoken by Joshua Friedman of Columbia University are quite apt.

"I refer to the freedom of the press as the canary in the coal mine,” said Joshua Friedman, director of international programs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. “It’s a barometer of the insecurity of the people running these governments. One of the things that makes them insecure these days is the power of the Internet."

Study: More Internet journalists jailed

Posted by John Venlet on 12/08 at 06:30 AM
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