Exporting digital authoritarianism: The Russian and Chinese models - FP_20190827_digital_authoritarianism_polyakova_meserole.pdf
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Digital authoritarianism — the use of digital information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign populations — China pioneered digital age censorship with its “Great Firewall” of a state-controlled Internet and unprecedented high-tech repression
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- Digital authoritarianism — the use of digital information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign populations —
- China pioneered digital age censorship with its “Great Firewall” of a state-controlled Internet and unprecedented high-tech repression deployed in Xinjiang in recent years, and has exported surveillance and monitoring systems to at least 18 countries.
- Most notably, China and Russia have learned how to leverage both the internet and information technology in ways that have reduced rather than expanded human freedom.
- Worse, they have also begun to export their models of digital authoritarianism across the globe.
- While China is driving innovation in high-tech social contro
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