Tuesday, August 21, 2012

From the Washington Post's Anne Applebaum: Pussy Riot brings dissent to the masses

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-pussy-riot-sentence-brings-dissent-to-the-masses/2012/08/21/2b583e5a-eba6-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html




Anne Applebaum
Opinion Writer

Pussy Riot sentence brings dissent to the masses


"It might be possible for the Russian leadership — or the Chinese leadership, or the Iranian leadership — to block the Web sites of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, but will they eventually have to banTheHollywoodGossip.com and E! Online as well? How about Al-Jazeera? Or South African Web sites that report “human interest” stories involving girl punk rockers? Global pop culture mutates and changes week by week, just as technology does: Modern dictatorships will have to make some fast decisions if they want to keep up."

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