Tom Coghlan, "Google and a Notebook: The Weapons Helping to Beat Gaddafi in Libya," Times (London), June 16, 2011.

91 across the border to collaborators in the diaspora living in Thailand

Mridul Chowdhury, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, "The Role of the Internet in Burma's Saffron Revolution," September 2008, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/Chowdhury_Role_of_the_Internet_in_Burmas_Saffron_Revolution.pdf_0.pdf.

92 completely blacking out the Internet inside the country's borders

Ibid.

93 Aung San Suu Kyi, from her long house arrest

Tim Johnson, "Aung San Suu Kyi Freed," Financial Times, November 13, 2010.

94 destined to take control of the government

Dean Nelson, "Aung San Suu Kyi 'Wins Landslide Landmark Election' as Burma Rejoices," Telegraph, April 1, 2012.

95 protest against the fraudulent presidential election

Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey, "Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing," SAIS Review 30, no. 2 (2010).

96 controlling Internet use by the protesters

Ibid.

97 the tragic death of Neda Agha-Soltan

Ibid.

98 protest movement were almost completely shut down

Ibid.

99 the government simply blacked it out

Ibid.

100 stifle any effective resistance to the dictatorship's authority

Will Heaven, "Iran and Twitter: The Fatal Folly of the Online Revolutionaries," Telegraph, December 29, 2009; Christopher Williams, "Iran Cracks Down on Web Dissident Technology," Telegraph, March 18, 2011.

101 Iran and the retro-Stalinist dictatorship of Belarus

Larry Diamond, "Liberation Technology," Journal of Democracy 21, no. 3 (July 2010).

102 turn the Internet within China into a national intranet

Ibid.

103 was censored and made unavailable to the people of China

Josh Chin, "Netizens React: Premier's Interview Censored," China Real Time Report blog, Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2010.

104 open values of the world's largest search engine, Google

Clive Thompson, "Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem)," New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2006.

105 "in certain areas the genie has been put back in the bottle"

Tim Carmody, "Google Co-Founder: China, Apple, Facebook Threaten the 'Open Web,' " Wired, April 16, 2012.

106 "It's hopeless to try to control the Internet"

Ian Katz, "Web Freedom Faces Greatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin," Guardian, April 15, 2012.