Protecting the Internet from Dictators Technical and Policy Solutions to Ensure Online Freedoms.
In this paper we explore the interaction between Internet communications, activists, and the state in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Uganda and northern Sudan. This paper addresses the following problem: Under what conditions are authoritarian regimes able to disrupt Internet traffic in situations of a popula...
| Published in: | Innovation Journal Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 1 - 24 |
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Innovation Journal
2013
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