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Evgeny Morozov: Marriage from Hell On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies
While it is previous information that authoritarian regimes repeatedly depend on censorship and surveillance know-how equipped to them by Western firms, 2011 was a yr (thanks, partly, to the Arab Spring) when it grew to become a scorching situation within the public debate. While politicians on either side of the Atlantic have just lately dedicated to ban the sale of such applied sciences to dictators, it isn’t clear whether or not such measures would show efficient (or merely drive the sale of such applied sciences underground) or just stimulate the expansion of Chinese, Russian and Indian firms. More disturbingly, there may be nonetheless little or no consciousness — not less than among the many common public — that lots of the instruments which can be at the moment exported to authoritarian states have been designed to assist struggle “The Global War On Terror” and are thus inextricably linked to home insurance policies of Western states.
This keynote speak will present an summary of firms and applied sciences concerned (with a give attention to the Middle East and former Soviet Union), hint the evolution of dictators’ methods, speculate on the way forward for commerce in surveillance and censorship instruments, and tackle the shortcomings within the “containment” methods put collectively by the US and EU.
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