A German-American research team led by the University of Konstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states worldwide to show how autocrats control the internet via state-owned service providers.
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Uh-huh. As Edward Snowden showed us, the more neoliberal a country is the more free 🙄 And public infrastructure is socialism is when no iPhone.
Edit to add: See also Room 641A » NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
What gave you the impression that the US is not classified as an authoritarian state?
Bourgeois democratic research institutions never do. I mean, just look at their funding.