Monday, 15 March 2010

In Passing

No room for “enlightened Westerners” hubris

But that’s different!  Dept
Spotted in today’s Journal:
...Modern technology also gives authoritarian regimes new power to monitor and punish critics.  Tehran slows Web access in advance of planned protests.  China has closed off Internet access to the resistive Xinjiang region...

Which raises the question:  Why shouldn’t the U.S. go further and endure access to the Web by people in especially deserving countries such as Iran? - L. Gordon Crovitz
...or maybe New Zealand?

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