Word: authoritarian
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...federal authorities. It’s about the Internet as a vast frontier, a sea of knowledge and openness whose limitless utility runs the risk of being hamstrung by interference and regulation. Most fundamentally, it’s about freedom—springing the interests of the individual from authoritarian influence, allowing the enjoyment of benefits without arbitrary hindrance, forcing the conservative interests to let go. “The way it feels to me is that our society at this point is way too tight,” Nesson says. “We’re just clutched...
...exercise of authority to force kids not to click on the net, and the exercise of the authority to keep them from smoking marijuana,” Nesson tells me in his office, drawing a couple of the threads together. “They both are articulations of an authoritarian state in which the law is being used by the people who’ve figured out how to use influence within the state against the interests of an unrepresented public. There’s nobody to defend the public domain...
...However, with cash-strapped municipal and regional governments in the dark about how much Sarkozy intends to contribute to the effort, most are expected to come in with pretty stingy contribution proposals - something likely to provoke a return of Sarkozy's authoritarian tone. The sparks that fly over money will be nothing, though, compared to the battle those same local leaders will likely put up when they realize they're bound to lose most of their power to a Greater Paris so enormous it will doubtless be administered by a new super-entity - possibly an organ of the state...
...year 2000 - when Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was toppled after 71 consecutive and authoritarian years in power - is considered the moment democracy arrived south of the border. But the process started 15 years before, after a horrendous 1985 earthquake that left 10,000 dead in Mexico City. The PRI's response to that tragedy was appalling, and it sowed the opposition anger that proliferated as the jaded ruling party kept making blunders, including a disastrous 1994 peso crash. In the next presidential election, six years later, Mexico's Berlin Wall finally fell...
Hitting a Hornet's Nest Mexico's drug plague is a product of both its authoritarian past and its new democratic present. When it ruled Mexico as an elective dictatorship, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) accommodated but regulated the drug cartels. But after the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 and its quasi-control of the cartels broke down, those groups split into more vicious gangs like the Zetas, a band of former army commandos who now head the Gulf Cartel. Cities from Nuevo Laredo to Cancn were soon reeling from turf battles. The Jurez Cartel, once Mexico...