Spiritual defender: Most Asian nations realizing Internet cannot be tamed

Monday, September 19, 2011

RAYLOKESeptember 19, 2011 at 1:48 AM
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It's not just dictators. Governments around the world, many of them popularly elected, have tried for years to control the Internet and social media, dismayed by their potential to incite violence, spread mischief and distribute pornography and dissent.
But in Asia, home to everything from free-wheeling democracies to totalitarian regimes and others in between, many governments are increasingly realizing that controlling online content, including dissent, just will not work.
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