Governments around the world have to deal with the power of social networks – and their reactions are not an endorsement
The year began with the reverberations of the Wikileaks-first revelation about US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and then what American diplomats have written home. Western Governments that until now has been seen as a modern network of communications technology is a scourge that useful authoritarian regimes started to have second thoughts.
U-turn is the most painful in the U.s. State Department, where Hillary Clinton has to eat his hat, or at least his speech January 2010 stir about how to “information has never been so free” and how “even in authoritarian countries, information network that helps people find new facts and making Government more accoun”.