Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
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The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
Dictators are interesting, no?
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.
When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
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