<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-l-article-topper gmail-l-article-topper--standard" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:6px 0px 5px 100px;padding:20px 20px 25px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div class="gmail-article-topper__header-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;max-width:600px;width:509.234px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div class="gmail-article-topper__hgroup" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;width:509.234px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><h1 class="gmail-article-topper__topic" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:10px 0px 0px;border-width:3px 0px 0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:neuehaas,sans-serif;max-width:600px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/c/computing/" class="entry__term" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Computing</a></h1><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:20px"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602310/governments-around-the-world-deny-internet-access-to-political-opponents/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602310/governments-around-the-world-deny-internet-access-to-political-opponents/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post</a></span></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></font></div><h2 class="gmail-article-topper__title" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:40px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:neuehaas,sans-serif;line-height:1.15;max-width:600px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Governments Around the World Deny Internet Access to Political Opponents</h2><p class="gmail-article-topper__subtitle" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:21px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px 50px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:neuehaas,sans-serif;line-height:1.4;max-width:600px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Keeping your enemies offline can cripple their chances of overthrowing you.</p><ul class="gmail-article-topper__meta-info" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;max-width:600px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><li class="gmail-article-topper__meta-item" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:600px;font-family:neuehaas,sans-serif;display:inline-block;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">by <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/mike-orcutt/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Mike Orcutt</a></li> <li class="gmail-article-topper__meta-item" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;max-wid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the University of Konstanz in Germany.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:millertext,serif;line-height:1.63;max-width:600px;width:520.906px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Internet access is clearly linked to individuals’ socioeconomic status and the level of development where they live. These factors contribute to “digital divides” seen throughout the world. In the new analysis, Weidmann and his coauthors aimed to shed light on a factor that isn’t as well understood: political divisions between ethnic groups.</p><figure class="gmail-l-article-img gmail-l-article-img--text-col" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:none;max-width:600px;width:520.906px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><img class="gmail-article-img gmail-article-img--text-col" src="https://d267cvn3rvuq91.cloudfront.net/i/images/broadbandpolitics.jpg?sw=600&cx=0&cy=0&cw=2000&ch=1000" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 0; display: inline-block; width: 520.906px; max-width: 100%; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"></span></figure><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:millertext,serif;line-height:1.63;max-width:600px;width:520.906px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">To achieve this, the group first had to create a new global map reflecting how Internet access varies across geographic regions within individual nations. For many countries, especially autocracies, such “subnational data” is difficult to find or is simply not available, says Weidmann. So he and his colleagues used data from a Swiss Internet service provider that handles huge amounts of global traffic, and information from a<a href="http://www.routeviews.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(249,14,30);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">database that tracks the global Internet routing system</a>, to create a global database of “subnetworks,” or small units of the Internet that correspond to just a few hundred IP addresses. They used a geolocation database to map those subnetworks. The map above highlights all the active subnetworks in the world in 2012.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:millertext,serif;line-height:1.63;max-width:600px;width:520.906px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">The researchers then turned to the so-called Ethnic Power Relations list, a database that categorizes the world’s ethnic groups according to their political relevance in their home countries, distinguishing between politically “included” vs. “excluded” groups. Using this distinction, and geographic information pinpointing the settlement regions of individual groups, Weidmann and colleagues determined how Internet penetration rates relate to political power. (About a third of the groups in the list were too widely dispersed to be included in the analysis.)</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:19px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:millertext,serif;line-height:1.63;max-width:600px;width:520.906px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">They concluded that excluded groups had significantly lower access compared to the groups in power, and that this can’t be explained by other economic or geographic factors (like living in rural vs. urban areas). Weidmann says the results add a new layer to our understanding of how national governments control Internet use. “You don’t have to censor if the opposition doesn’t get access at all.” He says organizations aiming to increase 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