Frogs for Snakes

Early on, many people predicted that the Internet would revolutionize communication, empowering to the people and thereby threatening  totalitarian regimes with the power of democracy.

It turns out that may not be the case. On NextGov.com, Aliya Sternstein cites research by Foreign Policy blogger Evgeny Morozov, who reports that he has grown skeptical of the Internets ability to foster democracy, noting that totalitarian regimes have used social networking sites to increase censorship: “The Web has given dictators the ability to mine contents of social networking sites to identify dissidents and to pay bloggers for spreading propaganda.”