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Surveying the Digital Explosion

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

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Geopolitics - Is There a Borderless Internet?

The internet is a tool and yes, it can be used for the free and open dissemination of information. But there's nothing intrinsically about the technology that says that's the only way it can be use. And particularly as we develop technologies for what we in liberal democracies would consider legitimate information control, those same tools can be used to track down people who are talking about 10 square meters on Hong Kong. So it's a geopolitics, it's a whole set of geopolitical issues.

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