Forum (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 2, 2009
Bursting the Green Dam
Censoring technology will not insulate the regimes in Iran and China from demands for change, writes Peter Scheer.
FORUM COLUMN
By Peter Scheer As Iran has its Tiananmen moment, no other government is watching events there with more anxiety than China - and with good reason. Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. And, to a remarkable degree, they have been successful in doing so. Until now. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that...
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