![]() Fear permeates the atmosphere, stifling discussion before it can begin. “But in Cuba the surveillance is more in your face.” If you’re at an Internet café, you find yourself worried that the person next to you is an informant. “I think China and Russia probably have more sophisticated surveillance,” said Parker. And in Cuba, there is very little access: Just 5 percent of citizens go online. The Internet is not going to change that,” Parker explained. ![]() Apathy reigns in Russia: “Eighty-five percent of Russians said they felt they had no impact on their political process. “They’re different because the way the government has controlled the Internet,” she said: China has its famous Great Firewall. Over the course of that time she became familiar with the roles the Web plays in each. Parker spent several years reporting her book, which looks closely at online networks in China, Cuba, and Russia. ![]() State Department, explored how the Internet can bring activists together in authoritarian countries-and the extent to which that online organizing can have real-world results. Slaughter and Parker, both veterans of the U.S. On Tuesday, March 4, Emily Parker discussed her new book Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground with New America Foundation President Anne-Marie Slaughter at the New America offices in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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