The rise of social media as a means of communication has been celebrated as a new way for citizens to voice dissatisfaction with their government and to coordinate dissent. But governments remain in de facto control over Internet accessibility, which means that new digital technology also provides abusive rulers with new repressive tools. In this seminar, the speaker argues that states' Internet control policies go hand in hand with their use of repressive strategies.

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