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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Iran Protests
« on: December 30, 2017, 11:05:45 am »
Only worked where there was no real control or monitoring of the internet. And it taught other governments. You think anything like that could be organized in China or Russia... or Iran? Iran tightly monitors the internet.

I concur, but your original point is still impacted.  Decentralized communication is more difficult to control.  If we had low-level satellite ISPs it would be impossible.

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But everyone knows state media is BS in a dictatorship. They don't trust it. The way you deal with social media is to A) block content based on algorithms which can monitor 24/7, B) arrest those who post anti-government views, and C) post pro-government views by 'ordinary people' to counter what few anti-government views get through the system.

Yes, that's a point but you can still make an impact with state media.  Merely holding the stations shows you are in control.   In an open society, you can't control the populist beast hence we have Trump in the US and The Rebel in Canada.