Oppression gets tougher for governments to pull off:
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Yet, in spite of "hacker heroes," governments still have the upper hand in controlling the flow of information on the Internet: Red Tape Chronicles
Still, Twitter still seems to work in Iran. Time Magazine also wrote on "Twitter's Moment."
(If you're not particularly familiar with Twitter, this story on FinancialPost.com provides an interesting backgrounder as to how it can be used.)
Meanwhile, in China, their government has required a sort of "v-chip" in new computers that's designed to "protect" (aka censor) their citizens from having access to sites the government doesn't want them to see.
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