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Dictators hate the Internet
: But they’re invited to the U.N.’s Internet conference, where Robert Mugabe said:
President Robert Mugabe’s anti-British diatribes rose to new extremes yesterday when he declared that Britain was using the internet to destroy Zimbabwe and recolonise the Third World.
Geez, now he’s gone really looney. Where’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when we need them? Oh, wait, they’re ignorant of the fact that there are black leaders abusing their people over there across the Atlantic ocean . . .
What????? A genocidal murderer is complaining? Wow! Gee! I’m going to really simpathyze with him!
He says the USA and UK are using “ICT superiority to challenge our sovereignty through hostile and malicious broadcasts calculated to foment instability and destroy the state through divisions.”
Does anyone know of any bloggers in the region???
Well, Mugabe is partially right, after all the decentralized, unplanned, uncontrolled, messy, dynamic, creative, joyous freedom of the internet is a direct threat to dictators and bureaucrats alike.
it’s so pathetic and wrong if it were a movie, it’d be funny.
Only 5 comments on this so far! Hello America, remember Africa?????