Posts tagged: power

He Who Controls Images, Controls People

With all the recent buzz on the Internet and elsewhere about Google’s impending pull-out from China, much mention has been made of the censored content that Google.cn presents to users in China.  Control of information is fundamental to totalitarian control of people.  For that reason, Google.cn could not present, for example, images of the 1989 [...]

Monday January 18th, 2010 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »