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Social media and cyber dissidents have exerted a increasing influence on global politics over the last few years—Twitter, for instance, was widely utilized by protesters and journalists during Iran’s 2009 post-election Green Movement, and China has been locked in conflict with Google over allegations of censorship and hacking. “Ideas in Action” with Jim Glassman, a half-hour weekly show on PBS, is airing an episode this weekend called “Cyber Dissidents: How the Internet is Changing Dissent.” Already online, the show details how authoritarian regimes are working hard to quash this rising form of opposition.
Freedom House’s Christopher
Walker, a guest on the episode, characterizes the last five years globally as a
“freedom recession.” Walker says Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela, among
others countries, have developed extremely advanced
techniques that can be used for everything from monitoring most of their
cyberspace to blocking Web sites they view as detrimental to their governments—which
often means taking
down media sites. He talks about how
Other panelists
on the show are David Keyes, founder of Cyberdissidents.org,
and Bari Weiss, assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal. See the program’s site for air times
across the country and to view the
entire episode.
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