POL101Y1 Study Guide - Malaysiakini, Charter 08, Liberal Democracy
7 Dec 2012
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Liberation technology - to empower individuals facilitate independent communication and mobilization and strengthen an emergent civil society. Pessimists argue that nothing in china has fundamentally changed. Authoritarian states have acquired (and shared) impressive technical capabilities to filter and control the internet and to punish disenter. Democrats and autocrats now compete to master these technologies liberation technology is any form of information and communication technology (ict) that can expand political, social and economic freedom. Now means essentially the modern interrelated forms of digital. In the end technology is merely a tool, open to both noble and nefarious purposes. Mobilizing against authoritarian rule represents only one possible. Before mobilization for democracy peaks, these tools may help to widen the public sphere, creating a more pluralistic and autonomous arena of new etc. Malaysia: widening the public sphere crucial pillar of authoritarian rule is control of information freedom house has documented malaysia lacks freedom of the press repressive laws severly constrain freedom to report.
