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Through A Prism Darkly: Surveillance And Speech Suppression In The Post-Democracy Electronic State", David Barnhizer Jan 2013

Through A Prism Darkly: Surveillance And Speech Suppression In The Post-Democracy Electronic State", David Barnhizer

David Barnhizer

Through a PRISM Darkly: Surveillance and Speech Suppression in the “Post-Democracy Electronic State” David Barnhizer There is no longer an American democracy. America is changing by the moment into a new political form, the “Post-Democracy Electronic State”. It has “morphed” into competing fragments operating within the physical territory defined as the United States while tenuously holding on to a few of the basic creeds that represent what we long considered an exceptional political experiment. That post-Democracy political order paradoxically consists of a combination of fragmented special interests eager to punish anyone that challenges their desires and a central government that …


Desafios Para Los Derechos De La Persona Ante El Siglo Xxi: Internet Y Nuevas Tecnologías / Sfide Per I Diritti Della Persona Nel Xxi Secolo: Internet E Nuove Tecnologie / Challenges Of Individual Rights In The Xxi Century: The Internet And New Tecnologies, Germán M. Teruel Lozano, Antonio Pérez Miras, Edoardo C. Raffiotta Dec 2012

Desafios Para Los Derechos De La Persona Ante El Siglo Xxi: Internet Y Nuevas Tecnologías / Sfide Per I Diritti Della Persona Nel Xxi Secolo: Internet E Nuove Tecnologie / Challenges Of Individual Rights In The Xxi Century: The Internet And New Tecnologies, Germán M. Teruel Lozano, Antonio Pérez Miras, Edoardo C. Raffiotta

Germán M. Teruel Lozano

The technological advances in recent decades have had an exceptional impact on the model of society causing what can be considered a true "revolution", which is both social and cultural and economic and legal. In particular, the Internet has made possible the birth of a new "civic habitat" that creates new opportunities for people to exercise their rights and freedoms in a space that knows no boundaries or time limits. Nevertheless, the Internet may also represent a new source of risk for the individual and his rights, thus giving rise to new challenges for their protection. Therefore this work seeks …