BBCNEWS HARDtalk January 12, 2022 00:49:00
Democratisation, to empower people from the bottom up so that they could challenge authority in new ways. i think it's fair to say in 2020, too, we're perhaps a little less optimistic, a little more sceptical. do you feel that the internet hasn't really been that tool for democratisation that we hoped for? well, i think it was just a matter of who got there first. uh, 2011...2010, 2011, the twitter revolution in iran, the social media revolution in the arab world, it's kind of...these were like kind of the activists and the regular people kind of had a leg up on the government. but then the go...
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