Censorship
November 5, 2015
Fear of the Unknown: Strategic Uncertainty and Self-Censorship
The independent Russian television channel TV Rain’s troubles accelerated with an online poll asking whether, during the Second World War, the Soviet Union ought to have surrendered the city of...
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July 14, 2015
The Authoritarian Surge into Cyberspace
In the early days of the Internet, it was difficult to imagine how authoritarian regimes could cope with such a powerful source of open information. Today, it is clear that...
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July 9, 2015
Beyond Propaganda: How Authoritarians Disrupt the Global Information Space
It has often been assumed that the era of globalization and the proliferation of communications technologies would foster a more pluralistic global information space in which liberal, democratic ideas would...
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June 30, 2015
Telling a Good Story: Censorship, Propaganda, and China’s Media
“Democracy Ideas” is an interview series conducted by Christopher Walker with leading thinkers on democracy who share their insights on topics such as the ways in which democracy can work...
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June 11, 2015
Sanitizing China’s Information Sphere
How many days in May? “Thirty-one,” of course. But in China, the answer is sometimes “thirty-five.” These four extra days are code for the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre,...
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June 9, 2015
In Advance of European Games, Azerbaijan Tames Human Rights Watchdogs
Since inheriting the presidency from his father in 2003, Ilham Aliyev has steadily shrunk the space in Azerbaijan for alternative views. Today, the country is ruled largely through fear. There...
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