, The New York Times; Finding Truth Online Is Hard Enough: Censors Make It A Labryinth
"The most insidious and damaging effect of this political purgatory is
that many Turks may not even know what information they are missing...
A heavily censored society not only loses access to information; it
ceases to know itself. The greatest loss the Turks face under Erdogan
might be their knowledge of one another."
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Show Trials in China; New York Times, 8/6/16
Editorial Board, New York Times; Show Trials in China:
"The campaign against legal activists is part of President Xi Jinping’s broad assault against any criticism of Communist Party rule. It has also included tough new controls on nongovernmental organizations, especially those with foreign connections, and a crackdown on religious organizations not sanctioned by the government. The pattern is dismally familiar in the annals of authoritarian governments. Mr. Xi’s efforts in the trials to portray the defendants as agents of “foreign hostile forces” working to foment a “color revolution” against the government echoes Vladimir Putin’s habit of identifying America as the architect of all of Russia’s problems. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has accused the West of supporting the plotters of the failed coup last month, and used it as a pretext for his crackdown."
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