{"id":1200,"date":"2011-12-30T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/30\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:22","slug":"tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/30\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrants and Technology: How Western Mercantilism Leads to Censorship and Disappearances &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/902362345\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism-leads-to-censorship-and-disappearances-forbes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/902362345\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism-leads-to-censorship-and-disappearances-forbes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/papEA-ICJu_OZr3oBKv3QTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>In the last two decades, leading information, communications, and technology (ICT) companies\u00a0have sold goods and services to repressive governments, enabling them\u00a0to dramatically improve their surveillance and intelligence capabilities as well as control the flow of information from the outside world.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thorhalvorssen\/2011\/12\/29\/tyrants-and-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesIn the last two decades, leading information, communications, and technology (ICT) companies\u00a0have sold goods and services to repressive governments, enabling them\u00a0to dramatically improve their surveillance and intelligence capabilities as well as control the flow of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/30\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/05\/07\/meet-the-darpa-backed-hackers-building-a-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":0},"title":"Meet The Darpa-Backed Hackers Building A Google For Every Web Weakness","author":"aslam","date":"May 7, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.punkspider.org\u201dThe goal is to provide free information to website users and owners regarding website security status.\u201cMeet The Darpa-Backed Hackers Building A Google For Every Web Weakness","rel":"","context":"In \"punkspider\"","block_context":{"text":"punkspider","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/punkspider\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":261,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/05\/18\/nano-cell-that-mimics-long-term-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":1},"title":"Nano cell that mimics long-term memory","author":"aslam","date":"May 18, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Project leader Dr Sharath Sriram, co-leader of the RMIT Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, said the ground-breaking development imitates the way the brain uses long-term memory. \u201cThis is the closest we have come to creating a brain-like system with memory that learns and stores analog information and is quick\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1804,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/09\/03\/the-overlapping-tensions-in-indias-online-business-policy-and-data-protection\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":2},"title":"India Pushes Back Against Tech \u2018Colonization\u2019 by Internet Giants &#8211; 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