Information Warfare: New Rules For Stubborn Rulers
22nd February 2020
Since 2000 use of the Internet has gone from 400 million users to over four billion. Governments around the world have taken notice and in the last decade many have made vigorous efforts to control what they consider a “disruptive”, to their control over the population, technology. Some rulers, usually of dictatorships, have been surprisingly successful in censoring and controlling Internet use by their subjects. Despite that the disruption to central control of information has been fundamentally changed in favor of the ruled rather than the rulers. When it comes to the Internet you can delay or distort the signal but you can’t stop it and what it does.
“You can’t stop the signal, Mal.”