State controls of technology

Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom by Michael Rectenwald

In a book about enormous sea changes brought about by digital technology, Google Archipelago begins and ends with the political, in particular with the objectives of the Big Digi­tal conglomerates as global corporate monopoly capitalists or would-be-monopolies.

Russian technology: can the Kremlin control the internet?

Moscow is developing a ‘sovereign’ web that critics say will enhance official power to silence dissent