Walter Pike writing in Free African Media:
What scares those in power most about the Internet and social media is that they don’t have control in those spheres anymore. And how do you maintain power if you no longer have control?...It is possible to keep people ignorant, by controlling the spread of knowledge, but this was far easier when you could control the pathways down which it spreads. How do you do it when every citizen, every customer, every consumer is a publisher?
When everyone has his or her own independent network of connections, when you don’t dare switch off the technology that drives these connections for more than a very short time for fear of destroying your economy and competitiveness...[continue reading]
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