Abstract
THE NOTION THAT the Internet poses an inherent threat to authoritarian regimes has waned in influence since the mid-1990s, as the political impact of net activists in China and elsewhere has fallen well short of early expectations. Cherian George delivers another assault to that politically naïve and technologically determinist proposition. Yet he does so through analysis of some of the more successful attempts in Singapore and Malaysia at harnessing the Internet to challenge institutions aligned with authoritarian regimes...