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On the occasion of the China congress, the BBC has an excellent, brief overview of Chinese digital authoritarianism, only leaving out mention of repressive measures retained for those who try anything:  See the link for lots of illustrations and video.
"How authorities censor your thoughts." By Stephen McDonell. BBC News (16 October 2017).
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41523073
Some are now identifying the new system as "digital Leninism":
Heilmann, Sebastian. "Big Data reshapes China's approach to governance." Merics (2 October 2017).
http://blog.merics.org/en/blog-post/2017/10/02/big-data-reshapes-chinas-approach-to-governance/
--Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42 at cornell.edu>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 17, 2017
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