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Dot Com for Dictators

Dot Com for Dictators. By Shanthi Kalathil Foreign Policy Magazine, March/April 2003. Authoritarianism 2.0. What to do about the Internet? Embrace it! (kind of) Heavily censor the public’s access to the Internet but allow widespread use. Examples: China, Malaysia and the UAE Ignore it!

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Dot Com for Dictators

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  1. Dot Com for Dictators By Shanthi Kalathil Foreign Policy Magazine, March/April 2003

  2. Authoritarianism 2.0 • What to do about the Internet? • Embrace it! (kind of) • Heavily censor the public’s access to the Internet but allow widespread use. • Examples: China, Malaysia and the UAE • Ignore it! • Only a select few have crippled Internet access. • Example: Cuba

  3. Suspicious of the Web • Why censor? • To slow the spread of “forbidden information”. • To counter the growth of “grass-roots” campaigns against the government. • The result? • An Internet “Arms Race” • Government censors public. • Public counters government. • Repeat.

  4. Dialing Up for Dollars • Seeing $$$ • Government push behind growing local IT industries • China, Malaysia, Vietnam & Singapore • Online Economic Repression • Cuba & Myanmar • Only essential industries that require the Internet get it. (Tourism, etc.)

  5. eCitizen • Singapore’s High Tech Program • Integrates key services from several government departments • Almost all government/citizen interaction can be handled online • 2.1 out of 4.5 million citizens are online

  6. Less Control is More • One must adapt to the Internet • Savvy leaders allow for less restrictions on the Internet than for other forms of media • Governments create their own array of politically unthreatening, domestically generated content to satisfy most users

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