Syindication
nationalism
From Great Firewall to Great Flamethrower
Published in opendotdotdot.blogspot.com - 112 days 16 hours ago
Brilliant analysis of why the Internet has not led to the huddled masses of China seeing "the light", but rather led to them seeing red over mistakes in Western coverage. Interestingly, it's specifically about Russia, but applies equally to China - which suggests that this is going to be an important technique widely used by authoritarian regimes as away of taming the Internet through stoking up an anti-Western nationalism:
