And You Can’t be a Little Pregnant, Either
From the Instapundit via Belmont Club. This post just shows that you can’t completely control access to information without completely controlling access to everything else.
The only way Chavez can continue his effort to limit public opinion that disagrees with him is to spread the repression - YouTube access control will require Internet control. This way leads to disconnectedness (to use a Thomas Barnett-ism) and to economic fossilization ala Cuba and North Korea.
June 01, 2007 BYPASSING HUGO CHAVEZ’S CENSORS, with YouTube:
An opposition Venezuelan television station whose broadcast license has not been renewed by the government is now turning to YouTube to get its message out after its transmitter was taken over by a state-run channel. Hugo Chavez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” has no time for media groups that criticize his government; Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is now off the air, and another channel, Globovision, could be next, according to CNN.
RCTV journalists and producers have not been arrested or stopped from working, but their main link to the public has been removed. Rather than giving up, the station has turned to YouTube, where it now has its own channel for the show El Observador. A Colombian channel is also broadcasting RCTV content into Venezuela.
El Observador clips have been seen 175,000 times since May 28, and the channel is currently the most-subscribed channel of the week.
Heh.
Heh, indeed - to steal both of Glenn Reynolds’ one-worders. Chavez can’t go too much farther without really shooting himself in the economic foot.
…and you can’t be a little bit pregnant, either
Source: Instapundit.com -
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