{"id":1410,"date":"2011-01-18T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:36:43","slug":"why-the-internet-is-a-great-tool-for-totalitarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Why the Internet Is a Great Tool for Totalitarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a special irony when Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests\u00e2\u20ac\u201das he did in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations last November\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government will find it impossible to censor \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a billion phones that are trying to express themselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Schmidt is rich because his company sells precisely targeted ads against hundreds of millions of search requests per day. If Google can zero in like that, so can China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s censors.<\/p>\n<p>Calling China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s online censorship system a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great Firewall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. But modern authoritarian governments control the web in ways more sophisticated than guard towers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/st_essay_totalitarians\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/st_essay_totalitarians\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a special irony when Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests\u00e2\u20ac\u201das he did in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations last November\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government will find it impossible to censor \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a billion phones that are trying to express themselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Schmidt is rich because his company sells precisely targeted ads against hundreds of millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}